Teaching union NASUWT calls for Ofsted to be abolished

Teaching national NASUWT has approved a question calling for the abolition of Ofsted, adding to increasing unit connected the schools watchdog.

Teachers described a "deep-seated fear" of Ofsted inspections astatine the union's yearly league successful Glasgow connected Monday.

Last month, the National Education Union besides called for an contiguous frost to inspections.

Ofsted has said astir schoolhouse leaders find inspections "constructive and collaborative".

There has been mounting disapproval of Ofsted pursuing the death of caput teacher Ruth Perry, who took her ain beingness up of a study downgrading her schoolhouse from "outstanding" to "inadequate".

The question passed connected Monday acknowledged that the "perceived demands of Ofsted are the large contributor to the excessive workload and bureaucracy that blights the lives of teachers".

It instructed the NASUWT's nationalist enforcement to enactment with different acquisition unions to telephone for an contiguous inspections freeze, and to motorboat a run to abolish the strategy successful its "current form", replacing it with a supportive framework.

Primary schoolhouse teacher Martin Hudson, who enactment guardant the motion, said determination was a "genuine and deep-seated fear" of Ofsted among teachers which was "completely unacceptable".

"Ofsted is simply a scourge of the schoolroom and the destroyer of teachers," helium added.

Gherie Wedeyesus, a teacher from Brent, said: "Let's enactment an extremity to this peddler of misery. Let's extremity this reign of panic and abolish Ofsted."

Others who spoke astatine the league called for Ofsted to beryllium reformed alternatively than abolished.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has besides indicated it could instrumentality ineligible enactment against Ofsted pursuing its nonaccomplishment to intermission inspections aft Ms Perry's death.

And past week, schoolhouse person Dr Martin Hanbury discontinue his relation arsenic an Ofsted inspector, telling the BBC he felt his relation could origin "more harm than good". He described the one-word grading strategy arsenic "totally unfit for purpose".

State schools successful England which are inspected by Ofsted are ranked connected a four-point standard - "outstanding", "good", "requires improvement" and "inadequate".

The Department for Education and Ofsted person some been approached for comment.