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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

Former Ofsted chief says Ruth Perry inspection was error-free

Amanda Spielman sitting at a desk with papers under her hands
Amanda Spielman left her role as HM chief inspector of education, children's services and skills in January. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Ofsted’s former chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, has refused to concede that her organisation made errors in its handling of the inspection that contributed to the death of the headteacher Ruth Perry.

Perry killed herself last year after Caversham primary school, which she had led for more than a decade, was downgraded from Ofsted’s highest grade of outstanding, to inadequate, its lowest.

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