The National Education Union has urged school leaders to refuse to work as Ofsted inspectors until a health and safety assessment of the system is carried out.
The union’s conference passed an urgent motion this morning that was tabled in the wake of the death of headteacher Ruth Perry.
Perry’s family said she had taken her own life in January before the publication of an inspection report rating Caversham primary school in Berkshire ‘inadequate’.
As well as calling for a freeze of inspections and the abolition of Ofsted, the motion instructed the union to “call on all NEU leadership members to refuse to participate as inspectors in any further inspections until a full health and safety assessment of the inspection system is conducted”.
