Jane Perryman (@janeeperryman.bsky.social)

In our latest open access Beyond Ofsted paper, Kate Killian argues that school improvement for the most vulnerable schools is incompatible with Ofsted’s culture of fear and deficit model of accountability www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Fearing the ‘Clipboard Police’: Exploring How Marginalised Schools Experience Ofsted Inspections in an Era of Precarity Research suggests that the inspection service in England, Ofsted, has negative impacts on teachers and creates a culture of fear and performativity. Of particular concern is Ofsted’s potential to h... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00071005.2025.2489952#abstract