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A total of 71 schools across region have been given the worst scores by inspectors - check to see if your child's school has made the list

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

It comes after a headteacher took her own life while waiting for an inspection report which downgraded her school.

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’.

Queen Emma head teacher Sarah Jarman said the inspection felt like ‘a wrecking ball had come through our school’.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, will accuse the Government of ‘selling young people down the river’.

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

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