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• Council reluctant to school disabled

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Fighting for special needs support becomes even more difficult when you have to battle a local authority A few years ago I sat in a school hall and listened to irate parents haranguing an education bigwig. The mood was simmering. The primary school was a haven for children with moderate learning difficulties, a ...
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• Parents of children with special educational needs feel let down by system

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Review of special educational needs services calls for national helpline for parents and extra funding Parents of children with special educational needs feel let down and unsupported in the English education system, a review will say today. Government, local authorities and schools must do more to help children ...
  4 days ago

• Barking? Ofsted asks school for dog risk assessment

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Head Michelle Taylor amazed at inspectors demand over Rosie the west highland terrier The school inspectorate, Ofsted, is in the doghouse again. One of its inspectors is said to have demanded a school carry out a risk assessment on the headteachers west highland terrier, the Times Educational Supplement reports ...
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• Baby P emails: judge demands explanation from Ofsted

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Newly disclosed court documents suggest Ofsted inspectors who wrote a damning report on Haringey childrens services were ordered to delete emails relating to Baby Peter and the council, a high court judge disclosed today. Mr Justice Foskett demanded an urgent explanation of a handwritten note found among hundreds of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Please dont be surveyed by OFSTEd

  
  Aspie Home-Education — Authority: 129
  Taken from here . ****Please feel free to cross post this message freely to all lists, blogs and social media - especially to local lists within the 15 designated counties.**** It is clear from recent exchanges with OFSTEd as well as their track record, that their recent attempt to try out a dry run of the kind of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ofsted raises the bar after college irregularities uncovered

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  How far can colleges go to present themselves in a favourable light and are inspectors missing clues? Colleges are coming under increasing pressure from Ofsted and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to show that their house is in order after it was discovered that seven colleges had manipulated student record data ...
  2 weeks ago

• Those Who Can, Teach, Those Who Can’t Are Criminals

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  I was young, it was college, I only took a puff! Of all the dumbassed nanny state ideas! Ofsted want all the estimated 40,000 parents who are teaching their kids at home to undergo a criminal records check. The parents who fall below the line of Mary Poppin’s status should then be barred from teaching their own ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ofsted is simply making schools worse

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Ofsted has become a Left-wing front dedicated to maintaining the pretence that schools under Labour are getting better all the time, writes Simon Heffer.
  3 weeks ago

• David Camerons own goal on Islamic schools

  
  Outside Left — Authority: 118
  A perturbing hint on how next years general electioncampaign might pan out emerged this week when David Cameron attempted tooutsmart Gordon Brown on the funding of two Islamic schools. The Conservative Party leaders allegations - thattaxpayers money was being used, in effect, to fund Muslim extremism and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Ofsted doesnt tick all the right boxes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The schools inspection body falls down on its markings Does Ofsteds tick-box culture deserve the criticism that has been heaped on it this week? I do believe so. I have before me an inspection report on a London primary school, rated outstanding. It scores the highest grade (out of four) in every one of 33 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brown accused of allowing taxpayers’ money go to ‘terror’ schools

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Nov 26 (ANI): British Prime Minster Gordon Brown has been accused of allowing taxpayers’ money to go to Muslim schools linked to Islamic extremists, which advocates killing of Jews.A storm erupted in Britain on Wednesday over claims that 113,000 pounds of taxpayers’ cash was given to schools linked to a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ed Balls hits back in row over funds given to Muslim schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  David Cameron was accused of playing politics with education today after he said the government had sanctioned "inappropriate use of public funds" to support two independent "extremist" Muslim schools. The Conservative leader used prime ministers questions to ask Gordon Brown to explain why he had not stopped the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Letters: Time to exclude Ofsted from schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ofsted is a creature of New Labours obsession with raising standards by central micromanagement enforced by ruthless inspection: it fails to accept that social deprivation can mean that, however hard-working and committed the teachers and social workers are, the "expected" standards cannot be reached overnight ( ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ofsted has become a jack of all trades

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Telegraph View: Ofsted should never have been asked to oversee child protection - it has enough trouble trying to raise standards in our schools.
  3 weeks ago

• Ofsted’s Annual Report says signs of child abuse still missed

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 512
  Ofsted, the UK’s child care regulator, issued its Annual Report today which revealed that the number of abuse and neglect cases remain comparable to last year. Following on the heels of strong criticism by the Local Government Association, Ofsted released its Annual Report today, citing that 414 children were ...
  3 weeks ago

• Services in deprived areas still of concern, says Ofsteds chief inspector

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  We will not protect vested interests – our priority must be vulnerable children Ofsteds work always generates considerable interest and sometimes controversy. I think this is because we report on things that matter deeply to parents and the public, and we sometimes have to give hard messages. It is our job to stand ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shooting the messenger

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 420
  I have written this post about todays Ofsted annual report and the attendant controversy around inspections for the Public Finance blog: Today’s Ofsted annual report has both good and bad news. There has been a substantial increase in the number of ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ schools – the equivalent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stubborn teachers hold back reform

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The number of failing childrens services departments has doubled, says the inspection bodys annual report A rapid improvement in the quality of Englands schools is being held back by a "stubborn core" of bad teachers, who are failing to inspire their classes, Ofsted reports today. There has been a sustained ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nearly one in three schools failing children Ofsted finds

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Ofsted inspectors warn there remains a stubborn core of inadequate teaching in Englands schools.
  3 weeks ago

• Ofsted attacked over child protection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Embattled childrens services watchdog faces calls for radical overhaul to restore public confidence Ofsted today faces calls for a radical overhaul to restore public confidence amid fresh accusations that it is so concerned with protecting its own reputation that it is failing to properly protect children. The ...
  3 weeks ago

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