The government has rejected a call from MPs to axe single word overall judgments in Ofsted inspection reports.
The call was made in January by members of the House of Commons Education Committee following the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, who took her own life last year after her school was inspected.
This “likely contributed” to her death, according to an inquest.
The MPs’ report calls on the Department for Education and Ofsted to work together “as a priority” on an alternative to the current single work overall judgment “that better captures the complex nature of a school’s performance”.
