Amanda Spielman’s reign as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools comes to an end this month.
The last couple of months have been particularly turbulent with criticism of Ofsted as a whole and her personally following the inquest into the death of Ruth Perry. Several organisations have called for reform of Ofsted (such as IPPR) and concerns about the consistency and reliability of grading are not going away.
In this article we are going to look back at the full seven years of her tenure to examine how schools’ inspection outcomes have changed since she took up position in January 2017.
During this time, a new inspection framework was introduced (from September 2019) that can probably be summed up in one word: curriculum.
