Government intervention in schools rated ‘requires improvement’ twice in a row has “clearly raised the stakes” and put more “pressure” on leaders, the chief inspector of Ofsted has said.
Amanda Spielman also warned MPs that scrapping single-phrase judgments would leave another element of an Ofsted report to “become the new extreme pressure” that triggered intervention.
The outgoing watchdog boss appeared in front of the House of Commons education committee this afternoon as MPs wrapped up their inquiry into Ofsted’s work with schools.
Spielman acknowledged “a lot of people clearly do dislike or resent the fact that a poor inspection judgment can lead to a change of control for a school”.
