After the surprising, or maybe not so surprising announcement this week that the Government has decided to ignore the cross party education select committee's findings/report, to also ignore the concerns raised by the Coroner who presided over Ruth Perry's Inquest in her Prevention of Future Deaths report, and ignore everything that every professional and individual that works in education has said in the last year or so and to keep the single/one-word judgements, because in their words there are 'significant' benefits from having an Ofsted overall effectiveness grade.  They haven't quantified what those 'significant' benefits are, or justified why they have chosen to ignore the cross-party education select committee report or totally disregarded the Coroners concerns in her Prevention of Future Death report.

This is totally disheartening, and in my opinion just isn't right and it is a kick in the teeth for Ruth Perry's family.

The government are not listening.

Ofsted are not listening.

Does that mean that we just roll over and be quiet or keep pushing?

I am not very good at being quiet and so I have drafted a petition on the Government Official Petition website.  It is a faff, to get an official petition going, it isn't immediate, you have to:

• draft it
• get 5 supporters to sign it
• then it needs to be reviewed and checked by the Petition team, it can be rejected if they don't like your wording or feel that it is covered by another petition.

I have drafted the petition, it is called, 

'Review and reverse the decision to allow Ofsted one-word judgements to remain'.

As soon as the draft petition goes live (assuming that they do approve it) I will share with you all and ask you to support if you can.

Have a good Friday!

take care of each other.

Rona