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Reforming Ofsted won’t fix Britain’s problem schools

4 February 2025

5:06 AM

4 February 2025

5:06 AM

The proportion of children staying away from school may be alarming – one in five –  but the proportion of parents – almost one in three – who do not see school as a necessary part of their child’s daily schedule is even more so. Keir Starmer’s government understood that the connection between parents and schools needed fixing – and settled on Ofsted as part of the solution.

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