Here we go: do you believe that all Ofsted summary judgements currently published on their website are accurate (& therefore 'useful to parents')?

Looking at everything through the lens of the adult and schooling can be very problematic Thoughts? Suzanne Zeedyk Naomi Fisher Pam Jarvis Dan Wuori Cindy J., Ph.D. KT T - 🕊️ 💚 🇪🇺 Dr Aaron Bradbury Dr Helen J not moving on Williams 🇪🇺🐦 Sue Cowley

Once again the government puts its own needs/ desires ahead of the welfare of citizens. #GeneralElectionNow

'They sent a 133-page indictment on me. A hundred and thirty-three pages … all those government lawyers working on this for months – I mean just how much public money have the government spent?” theguardian.com/environment/20…

I am going to leave the last words to Julia Waters, “My family, the teaching profession, parents, pupils and parliament had expected so much more…

The ‘Big Listen’ is a terrible piece of research, lambasted throughout the education sector and now it has the weight of a hundred select committee reforms resting upon it with its inept questions, let’s take just one example…

Ofsted’s complaints process is practically non-existent. Ofsted decide if you have a valid complaint. Ofsted do not share the evidential basis for their decisions and allow you to challenge them..

The government states a preference for the simplistic descriptors to avoid “the interpretations by civil servants, politicians and the media looking through the narrative of reports and drawing their own conclusions”. In other words, they want to control how you view schools…

The justification for retaining the single word judgements is that the government like them because they can summarise the entire system as '9 out of 10 schools are good or outstanding'…

Single word judgements are not preferred for their effectiveness in representing the work of schools, they are preferred by the government because of how they allow it to report the system as a whole. As the coroner feared; ease of communication over teacher welfare...

It is simply not good enough for the Secretary of State to be told by a parliamentary inquiry that the DfE “and Ofsted should work together as a priority to develop an alternative to the current single-word overall judgement” and to completely ignore the direction…

I’ve read the government’s response to the Select Committee’s Inquiry into Ofsted’s Work with Schools, and it is the most pathetic excuse for can-kicking inaction I have ever seen. It is an absence of a response, a vacuum of responsibility, a void of accountability…

at the very core of the so-called word gap is a raciolinguistic ideology which frames the language practices of marginalised communities as lacking. it is a victim blaming, deficit-based concept which simply diverts attention away from structural and systemic inequalities.

I have come to the conclusion too many that work for Ofsted think they are investigators, and forget they are inspectors.

My dad (who died almost exactly a year after my mum) taught me to value any chance that you have to make a difference, my mum would have relished the opportunity to sit down with a Secretary of State, to put her point of view across, to try and make a difference…

A young boy in the Al-Shaymaa area of Beit Lahia, North Gaza shares his experiences of survival and loss after his house was targeted the night before. Speaking from the heart, he details all the hardships faced by his community.

Today’s report by National Audit Office highlights the long-term problems and the inequality issues being perpetuated by the current ‘free hours’ early education and childcare model.

Experience-Based Route for Early Years Practitioners

Consultation link is below. Make sure you have your say.

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Nice summary of the major issues we are all aware of with this unplanned grossly under-resourced & chaotic rollout.

BBC News - Government scrapped tests to check £4bn childcare plan would work - BBC News
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Dominic Minghella I’d love to see Sunak putting that much effort into sorting out the Post Office scandal. If he’s got lots of spare courts and judges, they could get on with clearing the names of the innocent Post Office workers.