Former Ofsted chief says Ruth Perry inspection was error-free

Former Ofsted chief says Ruth Perry inspection was error-free

Amanda Spielman says the organisation acted appropriately and compares school ratings to doctors giving a difficult diagnosis

Ofsted’s former chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, has refused to concede that her organisation made errors in its handling of the inspection that contributed to the death of the headteacher Ruth Perry.

Perry took her own life last year, following Ofsted’s inspection of Caversham primary school near Reading, which downgraded the school she had led for more than a decade from Ofsted’s highest grade of outstanding to inadequate, its lowest.

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