Mark Shannon, Michael Bassey and Paul Clarke on changes to the Ofsted inspection system
Regarding your editorial (The Guardian view on Ofsted: radical change is needed, 12 June), as a parent of two children who attended Caversham primary school until last year, I can attest to Ruth Perry’s dedication and strong leadership. Our children had an overwhelmingly positive experience at the school.
My view of the Ofsted system is that it is too focused on treating schools like service providers to “customers”, ie children and parents, and not concerned at all with the wellbeing and resource health of the school itself. If Ofsted’s objective is to care about educational quality and child safety, it should be as concerned about staff as it is about pupils – without the staff there is no school.
