Giving Ofsted a greater role in school improvement risks “mission creep” and a “distortion of the inspection process”, an academy sector leader has warned.
Steve Rollett, deputy chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts, also told MPs this morning that such a system could result in inspectors reporting on improvement plans they themselves had created years earlier.
Labour has pledged a strengthened school improvement role for Ofsted if it wins power, alongside plans to scrap the headline graded judgments and replace them with a system of report cards.
But Rollett warned: “If we start thinking that inspection could play a bigger role in school improvement, I think we run the risk of mission creep. And you may see a distortion of the inspection process.”
