Ofsted are corrupt...

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Have you seen the article this morning with email quotes from Rachel de Souza telling her staff exactly when Ofsted were coming well beforehand? How can Ofsted have investigated this and found NO evidence?!

There has got to be a better system.

Link?

Sorry-here it is www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/18/emails-academies-ofsted-inspectors-rachel-de-souza

Disappointed but not surprised

She'll probably get away with it, she always does.

Is it a new thing that schools aren't given much notice then? When I was in school (from the mid 90s to the mid 00s) we always knew when the inspectors were coming. We were all told to be on our best behaviour and the school was thoroughly cleaned and tidied. It was like that joke in the Simpson's when they pack all the naughty kids and Skinner off on a "school trip" to get them out of the way during the inspection.

Schools are meant to get half a days notice now. The observer is alleging that these schools knew days or even weeks in advance.

Ursine mammal evacuates bowels in sylvan glade shocker.

Well yes Raven, but someone finding evidence is heartening.

Yes indeed! Even more so if anyone seemed minded to do anything about it...

I wonder if the Unions should be urging non-compliance with Ofsted.

Ursine mammal evacuates bowels in sylvan glade shocker.

raven that really should be the unions' next move.
Ofsted now is even more a political tool. The cronyism goes far beyond just a bit of handshaking and their destruction of our local schools here has been rapid since 2010- one after another after another going RI and then being academised.

DS' s school had OFSTED in during March this year. They got half a days notice. ..I know this as was a Governor at the time. The HT was away on a training day with another teacher. ..both came back in royal panic .

In reality we knew we were due as we had been told 18 months before that they were concentrating on schools who got "Satisfactory" at previous visits. We were just told it would be within the next two years so as time went on we knew it was getting closer. The actual phone call was half a day before they arrived....and came just after lunch.

Spring I don't know why people aren't more bothered by this. It's privatisation of state education essentially.

It's a shambles. I don't know what Education needs but it very much needs to be fixed. It doesn't need the Tories or Labour though, I don't think!

Exactly cherrypie. I was staggered reading about the Inspiration Trust people's backgrounds- 6 white males with banking and finance backgrounds and strong links to the Tories. Now, what would their interest in schools be, exactly? Entirely philanthropic? I doubt it.