Teachers have called for an Inspection Charter to be introduced to give schools and their staff a number of guarantees when they are visited by Ofsted.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) is to campaign for the Charter after a motion was unanimously approved by delegates at its annual conference in Manchester.
It came as general secretary Dr Mary Bousted delivered a withering attack on the inspectorate, claiming it was incapable of sorting out its own problems. She referenced last month’s Policy Exchange report, which questioned the reliability of Ofsted’s approach to lesson observations and raised concerns about the 3,000 outsourced inspectors, many of whom it said were unaccountable and lacked key data analysis skills.
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