When in parliament, Jim Knight served as schools minister for three years in the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown administrations. It is this experience that made the now Lord Knight of Weymouth an ideal candidate to chair the Beyond Ofsted inquiry set up by the National Education Union (NEU) in March.
The inquiry – sponsored by the NEU but vowed to be independent – aims to develop “a set of principles for underpinning a better inspection system and proposals for an alternative approach”. It was set up amid widespread anger about the school inspection system in England prompted by the death of head teacher Ruth Perry, who took her own life after Ofsted judged her school “inadequate” over safeguarding concerns.
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