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

Ofsted single-word judgments on schools must end, say MPs

Pupil in school
Ofsted currently rates schools as outstanding, good, requiring improvement or inadequate. Photograph: James Manning/PA

The government should stop the use of single-word judgments such as “inadequate” or “outstanding” in Ofsted’s headline grades of schools in England, a committee of MPs has urged.

MPs on the education committee said relations between Ofsted and teachers had become “extremely strained”, with trust in the watchdog “worryingly low” in the wake of the headteacher Ruth Perry’s suicide last year after a traumatic inspection.

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