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Teachers call for end of Ofsted's ‘reign of terror’
People attend a vigil for Ruth Perry outside the offices of Ofsted in Victoria, central London, on March 23, 2023, after she took her own life while waiting for a negative Ofsted inspection report

PRESSURE on the school inspections system in England continued to mount today after a teaching union called for the end of Ofsted’s “reign of terror.”

A motion calling for the school standards agency to be abolished was approved at the NASUWT’s annual conference in Glasgow on Monday.

It joins the National Education Union in demanding for an immediate freeze of inspections to allow for full mental health assessments to be carried out on teachers and school leaders.

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