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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Eleanor Busby

Ofsted’s school report cards could be ‘harder’ for parents to use, MPs told

The Government announced last year that headline Ofsted grades for overall effectiveness for schools in England would be scrapped (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

Ofsted’s proposed report cards will make it more difficult to tackle the reliability of inspections and they could be “harder” for parents to use, a former Government adviser has warned.

Sam Freedman, who worked at the Department for Education (DfE) as a policy adviser to former education secretary Michael Gove, said he had “a lot of worries” about the proposals.

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