Headteacher Lisa Telling can remember her daughter asking her to promise she would not hurt herself when they were discussing a recent Ofsted inspection.
“I shouldn’t be saying to my daughter, ‘if this goes wrong we might have to move house’,” says the executive head of Katesgrove and Southcote Primary Schools in Reading. “We shouldn’t have to do that to our families.”
Her experience is one of many shared by headteachers who feel crushed by the accountability system.
But widespread discontent this week exploded into an outpouring of anger following reports of the death of Reading headteacher Ruth Perry.
