The coroner in the inquest into the death of headteacher Ruth Perry has warned there is a “risk of future deaths if there is only lip service paid to learning from tragedies like this”.
Heidi Connor, who concluded Perry died in January by suicide, contributed to by an Ofsted inspection, plans to issue a “regulation 28” report aimed at preventing future deaths, and urged education secretary Gillian Keegan not to ignore its findings.
She said she hoped her conclusions and report “will be used by the parliamentary inquiry process to review how school inspection should work going forward”.
Perry was headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Berkshire when it was rated ‘inadequate’ by inspectors following the visit last autumn.
