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Jeremy Corbyn defends Labor plan to scrap Ofsted – ITV News, Itv.com

Jeremy Corbyn defends Labor plan to scrap Ofsted – ITV News, Itv.com


        

          

            

                  

                                         

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Mr Corbyn suggested the new system would be ‘a more frequent form of supportive investigation’.Credit: PA
  

Jeremy Corbyn has defended Labor plans to scrap schools inspectorate Ofsted.

The Labor leader said the Ofsted process created “absolutely enormous” levels of stress for staff and pupils.

Under the Opposition’s plans, being set out at the Labor conference in Brighton, a two-phase inspection system would be introduced.

Schools and education providers would be subject to regular “health checks” by local government, and more in-depth inspections led by Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMIs) – full-time, trained inspectors.

The HMIs would carry out inspections in response to concerns arising from the regular “health checks” or those raised by parents, teachers and governors – rather than at random.

Jeremy Corbyn says Ofsten puts teachers under ‘enormous’ levels of stress.Credit: PA
  

Mr Corbyn suggested the new system would be “a more frequent form of supportive investigation”.

But Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the move would stop parents having “the most basic information”, and the Association of School and College Leaders ( (ASCL) said Labor’s plans represented a “complicated answer” to the issue.

Labor said the system would ensure parents receive the “in-depth and reliable information that they need about our schools” while reducing stress for teachers .

Mr Corbyn told BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “What we want is an education service that leaves no child behind and gets the best out of everyone .

“You don’t achieve the best by threatening people. We are losing almost as many teachers as we are recruiting every year because of the levels of stress they are under. ”

Labor has already promised to scrap formal primary school tests – known as Sats – to ease stress.

It would also introduce a new statutory definition of a school, and crack down on an estimated 500 illegal schools which fall outside the current inspection system.

Shadow education secretary Angela RaynerCredit: Jonathan Brady / PA
  

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: “In too many cases, Ofsted’s judgments and grades reflect the affluence of a school’s intake and the social class of its pupils – not the performance of the school.

“School performance is far too important and complex to be boiled down to an over-simplified single grade, reducing all schools to one of four categories.

“The current system is unfit for purpose, so the next Labor government will abolish Ofsted and replace it with a system that will give parents the reliable and in-depth information that they need about our schools. ”

Ofsted’s chief inspector Amanda Spielman said: “Ofsted has been standing up for the interests of children and parents for over a quarter of a century. It’s a cause that inspires everyone who works here.

She added: “We’ll keep on raising standards in education through our new model of inspection and we’ll continue to keep the most vulnerable in society safe, through our regulation of children’s social care services across England. ”

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, welcomed the announcement.

“Ofsted has been a force for lowering school standards by driving teachers from the profession,” she said.

                

                                            

        

      

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