Ofsted has so far resisted calls from unions to scrap single-word judgements, but one former inspector told Sky News that reform is 'long overdue', and claimed evidence is made to fit a preconceived rating.
"And that's not particularly helpful in terms of us trying to get through to the overall final grade. So I felt very uncomfortable with that."On what people have been saying since the death of Ruth Perry, general secretary of the NAHT union for school leaders Paul Whiteman asked:"How many do we need before it becomes serious?""We've been experiencing these calls and these complaints for a very long time," he told Sky News.
"If you've just been inspected obviously you can relax for a period of time. But when you know you are in that cycle you are waiting for a telephone call on the Monday, the Tuesday and the Wednesday, and it's a sleepless night, it's a panic… and that's a cycle that repeats and repeats and repeats," he said.Meanwhile, headteacher Simon Kidwell's school in Cheshire was inspected last week.
"I think it's the intensity of the process. I think it's the adrenaline because it's very, very high stakes. And it's worrying about your staff," he said.Mr Kidwell, described the Ofsted process his school undertook last week as"very intense" after they had been expecting a phone call from the regulator for 18 months."We had four inspectors on site for two days and they were very, very thorough in the things that they looked at," he said.
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