Schools slated for inspection this week will have all deferral requests approved, Ofsted has said, following the culmination last week of Ruth Perry’s inquest.
A coroner concluded that an Ofsted inspection at Caversham Primary School contributed to the headteacher’s death. She is also preparing to issue a regulation 28 report setting out the action that should be taken to prevent future tragedies.
This week is the last in which inspections are due to take place before the Christmas break, and Ofsted said tonight it would “use our existing deferral policy to give headteachers the ability to defer their inspection to the new year, if they don’t want it to go ahead this week”.
Pressed on whether this meant all deferral requests from schools would be approved, Ofsted confirmed this was the case.
