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Stephanie Wareham

Ruth Perry’s sister says Ofsted reforms put school leaders ‘at risk of public shaming’

Julia Waters, sister of Ruth Perry, speaking to members of the media in Reading Town Hall at the end of the inquest for the headteacher (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

The sister of a headteacher who took her own life says Ofsted’s planned changes to the way schools are inspected “still put school leaders at risk of public shaming” and has urged the rollout to be halted by the Education Secretary.

Professor Julia Waters, sister of Ruth Perry, said Ofsted’s new plans, which include report cards with a five-point grading scale due to come into place in November, are just a “cosmetic rebranding, tweaking and expansion of the same unreliable and punishing system as the one before”.

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