Ruth Perry family furious as Ofsted single-word ratings are retained

The DfE said Ofsted’s headline grades provided ‘a succinct and accessible summary for parents’. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Ofsted’s controversial single-word judgments are here to stay, the government has ruled, in a blow to campaigners who hoped they would be scrapped after the suicide of the primary school headteacher Ruth Perry.

Perry’s sister, Prof Julia Waters, reacted with fury to the government’s statement, published on Thursday in response to an inquiry into Ofsted by MPs on the Commons education committee, describing it as “woefully inadequate”.