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A group of school leaders are crowdfunding 'to gather evidence of Ofsted’s unfair practices and their devastating impact on schools' in the wake of the death of headteacher Ruth Perry

Letters: The current process to evaluate schools is not fit for purpose, say readers

Julia Waters criticises ‘fatally destructive’ inspections and calls on school leaders to refuse to cooperate with watchdog

Professor Julia Waters called on the Government and watchdog to take ‘urgent meaningful actions’.

Relations between schools and the education watchdog have dramatically deteriorated since the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, who killed herself in January while waiting for an Ofsted report that downgraded her school to inadequate

The current inspection model ’causes unacceptable collateral damage’ to school leaders’ health, the president elect of the NAHT union will say.

Editorial: There is little evidence that the current regime helps schools to improve – and plenty of evidence that a better system is needed

Amanda Spielman says for vast majority of schools ‘it’s a positive and affirming experience’

The National Education Union said it would meet Education Secretary Gillian Keegan for crunch negotiations on Monday morning - if the Cabinet Minister was willing

Amanda Spielman's remarks came after Ms Perry's sister said pausing inspections would be the 'empathetic, human, correct thing to do' while a review takes place

'From what I’ve seen, I don’t have any reason to doubt the inspection'