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Amanda Spielman

April 2024

  • Amanda Spielman sitting at a desk with papers under her hands

    Former Ofsted chief says Ruth Perry inspection was error-free

    Amanda Spielman says agency did not get it wrong in school downgrade that contributed to headteacher’s death

December 2023

  • Gillian Keegan outside 10 Downing Street – she is wearing a black coat with fluffy collar and holding a red folder, walking away from No 10's door, which has a Christmas wreath; there is a decorated Christmas tree behind her

    Unions ask education secretary and Ofsted chief to halt school inspections

    NAHT and ASCL call on Gillian Keegan and Amanda Spielman to allow time to address concerns raised by coroner
  • Amanda Spielman photographed behind a desk with a whiteboard behind her, in what looks like a classroom; she has chin-length blond hair and is wearing a collarless grey tweed jacket, and is gesturing with her hands

    Ofsted chief ‘should quit now’, says Ruth Perry’s sister as briefing memo is revealed

    Family of headteacher who killed herself calls on Amanda Spielman to resign over inadequate response to coroner’s verdict
  • Ruth Perry

    Ruth Perry ‘amazed’ more heads did not kill themselves, inquest hears

    Hearing into death of Caversham primary school head was also told she thought Ofsted inspections were ‘inhumane’

November 2023

  • A child does maths activities on an iPad during home schooling

    School leaders in England feel lockdown ‘broke spell’ of bond with parents

    Education experts agree with Ofsted chief that many parents now disregard rules previously taken for granted
  • Amanda Spielman in front of a whiteboard

    Hostility between parents and schools has grown since Covid, says Ofsted head

    Annual report on England’s schools highlights absenteeism, disruptive behaviour and parental challenges to rules
  • Teachers and students in a classroom

    The Guardian view on reforming Ofsted: at last, the inspectorate’s failings are being admitted

    Editorial: An overhaul of English school inspections is overdue, but wider understanding of what has gone wrong is needed first

October 2023

  • Amanda Spielman at desk with papers in front of her and whiteboard behind

    Disruptive behaviour in English schools worse since Covid, says outgoing Ofsted head

    Amanda Spielman says children are walking out of class, or registering but not attending lessons

July 2023

  • Photographs and candles are laid in tribute to Ruth Perry

    New Ofsted report upgrades headteacher Ruth Perry’s school to ‘good’

    Perry took her own life in January after Caversham primary school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate

June 2023

  • Sir Michael Wilshaw pictured in June 2016

    Former Ofsted chief: school inspections should change after headteacher’s death

  • Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s chief inspector.

    The Guardian view on Ofsted: radical change is needed

  • Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted.

    Scrapping one-word gradings won’t solve heads’ ‘discomfort’, says Ofsted chief

  • Ruth Perry

    Ofsted school inspection reforms ‘nowhere near enough’

April 2023

  • A teacher and students in a classroom

    Schools deserve better than this Ofsted inspections regime

  • A person places tea lights on the ground next to three framed photographs of Ruth Perry

    Sister of Ruth Perry urges headteachers to resist Ofsted ‘culture of fear’

  • Primary school children sitting together

    The Guardian view on Ofsted inspections: not fulfilling their purpose

  • The Shot at Dawn memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

    Brief letters
    Touched by a tragic first world war tale

  • Ofsted chief admits to ‘culture of fear’ around England’s school inspections

  • Proposed Ofsted changes ‘totally inadequate’, say family of Ruth Perry

March 2023

  • Amanda Spielman.

    ‘Deeply sorry’ Ofsted chief rejects call for halt in inspections after head’s death

    After Ruth Perry’s family demand urgent review, Amanda Spielman says she is open to debate about grading
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