New Clause 4 - Complaints procedures
Education Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Mrs Angela Watkinson (Shadow Minister, Education; Upminster, Conservative)
I am reassured in part by the Minister’s comments, but I foresee certain circumstances in which there is a dispute about the justification for the results of an inspection and a difference of opinion, because the independent adjudicator has upheld the views of the school but Ofsted has decided that it was right. Notwithstanding the fact that Ofsted will make a statement about its reasons for not wanting to change its views on the report, that appears to be the end of the line, and the school will be saddled with an Ofsted report that it believes to be unjustified. If I understand the Minister correctly, there is no further recourse beyond that point.