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When Labour unveiled its plans to scrap Ofsted in September, it met with a mixed reaction. Former Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw calls it “bonkers”, but there is support from some unions. Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, says Ofsted has forced teachers from the profession and harshly judged schools in disadvantaged areas.
“Schools in disadvantaged areas, doing the hardest work, are routinely downgraded by Ofsted, not for the quality of their teaching but because of the deprivation of their pupils,” she says. “Labour’s proposal to abolish an overall school grade is long overdue. Schools are too complex to be reduced to a single grade. Under Labour’s proposals, inspections will focus on those areas of a school which clearly need to improve.”
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