In a speech to the National College’s annual conference, Wilshaw said that the review comes nearly 20 years after the first Ofsted Access and Achievement in Urban Education report and a decade after the progress report.
He said: “Twenty years ago, Ofsted produced a landmark report, which described the lack of educational success and the paucity of good-quality provision in deprived communities.
“Ten years later, David Bell, the then chief inspector, produced another report under the same headline. What was so depressing was that his report painted a similarly bleak picture of underperformance in these same communities.
“I am asking the educational leaders of this country to take ownership of the situation and show the leadership needed to change the learning landscape.
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