{"id":409486,"date":"2025-09-09T04:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409486\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:05:12","slug":"ofsted-to-bring-in-report-card-school-inspections-despite-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409486\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofsted to bring in report card school inspections despite criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, calling on her to intervene and delay the rollout of the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a joint letter, the group said Ofsted had &#8220;failed to learn the lessons&#8221; from the death of Mrs Perry, who took her own life in 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-67639942\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">following an Ofsted inspection<\/a>. A coroner ruled that the inspection contributed to her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The proven life-threatening risks associated with a grades-based schools accountability system, based on public shaming and the fear of high stakes consequences, have not changed,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing the expansion of a new system for improving schools, which will use the report card inspections, Phillipson said: &#8220;Every child deserves a brilliant education &#8211; and that means a system that&#8217;s relentlessly focused on strong accountability that puts children first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the new system, inspectors will use a five-point grading scale to mark schools across several different areas:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These categories will be graded as either &#8220;exceptional&#8221;, &#8220;strong standard&#8221;, &#8220;expected standard&#8221;, &#8220;needs attention&#8221; or &#8220;urgent improvement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report cards will also include sections on whether safeguarding standards have been met or not, what it is like to be a pupil at the school, what the next steps are for the school, and details of the inspection itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ofsted said it would also bring in a new monitoring system, to allow schools to be reinspected on areas that need improvement more quickly after those improvements are made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, calling on her to intervene and delay the rollout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-409486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115172364994255444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}