TEACHERS fearing for their mental health after an “intimidating” Ofsted inspection led to threats of forced academisation are to strike for six days.

National Education Union (NEU) members at Byron Court Primary School in Wembley, north-west London, said today that they would take industrial action to save their community school from joining the Harris Federation academy chain.

The union said that long-serving members of staff face uncertainty over their jobs, pay and conditions under the potential takeover and are asking for a reinspection, “handled fairly and proportionately … after reports that Ofsted lied during the complaints process.”