Ofsted school inspections to change after Ruth Perry’s family campaign
- School inspections in England are set to change following calls for reform.
- Ofsted will revisit schools graded inadequate over child welfare within three months and a school can be regraded if concerns have been addressed.
- From September, schools will be given more detail of what is expected in measures to keep children safe, such as keeping good records and training staff to deal with concerns.
- Ofsted’s compaints system will be overhauled so that complaints could be escalated to an independent adjudicator at an early stage.
- Ms Perry’s Sister, Prof Waters has said that her most important concerns still have not been addressed, including summing a school up in a one-word judgement.
- Another parent campaigner added that the one-word system feels like a judgement on everyone in the school community.
- For more, please visit the BBC News website.
Twitter has reportedly refused to pay its Google Cloud contract
- Twitter has recently refused to pay Google ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date.
- This is putting some tools, including Smyte, which provides moderation services, in danger of going offline.
- If Twitter can’t move the system to its own servers by the end of the month, Platformer suggests a shutdown would impact the company’s ability to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
- For more, please visit Engadget’s website.
The following story may be regionalised.
Sharp rise seen in home educated children in Kent
- The number of pupils being educated at home in Kent and Medway has risen by more than 50% within five years.
- According to Freedom of Information figures, a total of 3,044 children in Kent were being home educated in April 2022, compared to 1,997 in 2018.
- The total in Medway has also risen from 405 to 608 in the same period.
- The Department for Education said any decision to home educate should take the child’s best interests into consideration.
- Council officials have suggested the reasons behind the rise include mental health problems, bullying and parent dissatisfaction with schools.
- The national home education charity Education Otherwise have seen an increase in parents supporting children with anxiety since the pandemic.
- For more, please visit the BBC News website.
