Ofsted chief inspector Martyn Oliver spoke to education committee MPs on new report cards, safeguarding ‘spot checks’ and SEND worries amongst other things. You can read the transcript of the meeting on the Parliament website, here (where there is also am link to watch the recording of the meeting). Some of the points he made include:
- A consultation on introducing school report cards in September will launch this month – and governors should take note that he thinks leadership and governance will form a key focus of the report cards;
- Other areas the report cards would cover are teaching, behaviour and attitudes, inclusion, outcomes and curriculum.;
- Safeguarding will become a separate criterion, and should not be a part of the leadership and governance judgment;
- An entirely independent complaints process would be a burden on schools, and he resists putting one in place;
- He would like there to be powers to inspect MATs, noting that “No-one should be able to hide anywhere, in any shadow”;
- Speaking about SEND, he stated “The system doesn’t work right now, … It’s a lose-lose situation. It is broken. I think we can direct schools to be more inclusive and reward those that are doing the difficult job.”;
- He defended overseeing the process for complaints about inspectors within Ofsted.
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