Unions urged a pause after a head killed herself while awaiting a report that downgraded her school.
Amanda Spielman said Ofsted would remain focused on improving the way it worked with schools and how inspections felt for school staffStopping or preventing school inspections in England would be against "children's best interests", the chief inspector of Ofsted has said.Unions have called for them to be paused, after head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life while waiting for a report that downgraded her school.
It would be wrong to say too much ahead of the coroner's inquest but Ms Perry's suicide "was met with great sadness at Ofsted". This was a difficult time to be a head teacher, particularly since the pandemic, as absence was high, mental-health problems had increased, and "external support services are unable to meet increased demand"."It looks at what children are being taught, assesses how well behaviour is being taught and managed and checks that teachers know what to do if children are being abused or harmed," Ms Spielman added.
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