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

Former Ofsted chief: school inspections should change after headteacher’s death

Sir Michael Wilshaw pictured in June 2016
Sir Michael Wilshaw led Ofsted until 2016. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

The former chief inspector of schools in England Sir Michael Wilshaw has said Ofsted’s style of school inspections needs to change after the death of the headteacher Ruth Perry.

Wilshaw, who led Ofsted until 2016, said Perry’s death, following an inspection that downgraded her school from “outstanding” to “inadequate”, had changed his mind over the use of one-word headline grades to rate schools in England.

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