A Newcastle teacher has led calls for the abolition of Ofsted at a national teaching union's conference.
Martin Hudson, who works as a primary school teacher in the Fawdon area, brought a motion calling for the inspectorate to be abolished to the NASUWT teaching union's conference in Glasgow. Afterwards, speaking to ChronicleLive, he said the inspection system was "feared" by teachers, and that the heartbreaking suicide of a Reading headteacher was "coming up in every staffroom".
Ruth Perry, who led the Caversham Primary School in the Berkshire town, died by suicide in January, awaiting an Ofsted report that put her school in the lowest category.
