A growing “culture of complaints” combined with “dubious practices” by Ofsted is piling pressure on headteachers and driving them out of the profession, a conference has heard.
Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) in Liverpool on Saturday (May 5), Jim Nicholson, a headteacher and secretary of the Stockport branch of the union, said that school leaders were an “easy target for ever-increasing dissatisfaction within the public realm” – and that this was having a detrimental effect on their wellbeing.
“School leaders are vulnerable and easy to attack,” he said.
“While everyone understands that we need a process of complaints, it is apparent that there is no clarity of process anymore.
“We never know from which angle or which direction (complaints) will come.
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