Ofsted is “reviewing” its approach to inspecting safeguarding in schools following an outcry over the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, Gillian Keegan has said.
The education secretary told MPs this afternoon that Perry’s death was a “terrible tragedy”, and agreed to meet her family and headteachers in her local area.
It comes after widespread discontent with Ofsted inspections exploded into an outpouring of anger following reports of Perry’s death.
Her family say she took her own life in January before the publication of an inspection report at Caversham Primary School that downgraded her school from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’. They blame pressure from the Ofsted process for her death.
