Ofsted inspections pushing headteachers to ‘point of destruction’, union chief says

Ofsted did not serve children, Paul Whiteman said in his speech to the annual NAHT conference. Photograph: Lbeddoe/Alamy

School leaders are being pressurised “to the point of destruction”, the head of a teaching union has said, as he put the education establishment “on notice”.

During a speech to the union’s annual conference in Belfast, Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), outlined his criticisms of Ofsted, the schools watchdog for England.