Ofsted “did not do enough” to identify serious child protection weaknesses in some schools, a damning inquiry into child sexual abuse has found.
Inspectors even gave clean bills of health to settings where children were being sexually abused.
The seven-year-long Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found there were “limitations on an inspectorate’s ability to judge the adequacy” of schools’ child protection approaches.
The current inspection system may also “lead to false assurances about children’s safety”, it warned.
