Amanda Spielman laid out plans for “ways to improve” Ofsted’s inspection systems following calls from school leaders to scrap its one-word gradings following the suicide of head teacher Ruth Perry earlier this year after her school was rated “inadequate”.
In a statement entitled Improving how we work, Spielman said: “I want to acknowledge the continuing debate and the strength of feeling, and I want to set out some of the things we’re doing and reflect on the suggestions of more radical reform.”
While Spielman made no commitment to changing Ofsted’s grading system, she added that the inspectorate is “looking at ways to return more quickly” to schools that have been downgraded due to safeguarding failings but have otherwise “performed well”.
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