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Ofsted’s menacing inspections are still disastrous. Schools should answer to the communities they serve | Simon Jenkins
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian Politics is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to England. The first report grouped here was at 13 Nov 2026, 08:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Ofsted’s menacing inspections are still disastrous. Schools should answer to the communities they serve | Simon Jenkins”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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For all the supposed improvements, inspectors still obsess over statistics and adjectives, but surely school success depends on teachers and parents The government regulation of state schools by Ofsted in England is a fiasco. Following the 2023 suicide of the Reading headteacher Ruth Perry, after her school was downgraded from…
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