An influential think tank has set out a blueprint for how Labour’s proposed Ofsted overhaul and new school improvement model could work.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has proposed a three-tier regulatory response to delivering school improvement, with one-word Ofsted grades which fuel a hire and fire “football manager culture” abolished.
IPPR is known to be influential in shaping Labour policy. One of the party’s key schools policies is to ditch Ofsted grades and send in new regional improvement teams to “end the scandal of stuck schools”.
Labour has already outlined that it would consult on scrapping Ofsted’s current grading system and replacing it with a “report card” if it wins the next election.
