PROFESSOR Julia Waters has released a further statement following the scrapping of single-word assessments by Ofsted.
The schools inspectorate has laid out plans to replace the assesments with a new “report card” system intended to improve standards of assessment and to help parents better understand the fuller picture of each school’s performance.
Ms Waters said: “Sir Martyn Oliver has promised real change in the culture and practice of school inspection.
“Now he has to deliver it. The enormous amount of feedback provided to him by independent experts, parents, teachers and others shows what a huge task this will be.
“I wish him luck- the mountain of evidence that Ofsted has published today makes for very difficult reading in places, but it is sadly not a surprise to my family, or the many people who have suffered as a result of their experience of badly-run inspections.
“These new reports join the many sources of existing evidence that shows Ofsted has too frequently been a source of problems, not solutions, to those who teach and look after our children.
She explained: “Winning back people’s trust will take time and consistent action.
“Ofsted stands for standards in education, and the organisation needs to ensure its own self-stated standards of empathy and respect are consistently seen to be higher.
“After a Big Listen, we have now been promised big change. Ofsted can have no more excuses.”
