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Simon Kidwell said the framework that underpins the inspection process needs to be redesigned.

Its judgments are often inaccurate and outdated and they put undue stress on heads and teachers. We need a more intelligent approach to inspections

Staff warn vulnerable children may be harmed as they struggle to find placements after 28 homes given deadline to shut by chain

It comes after a headteacher took her own life while waiting for an inspection report which downgraded her school.

Julia Waters criticises ‘fatally destructive’ inspections and calls on school leaders to refuse to cooperate with watchdog

Professor Julia Waters called on the Government and watchdog to take ‘urgent meaningful actions’.

Queen Emma head teacher Sarah Jarman said the inspection felt like ‘a wrecking ball had come through our school’.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, will accuse the Government of ‘selling young people down the river’.

The current inspection model ’causes unacceptable collateral damage’ to school leaders’ health, the president elect of the NAHT union will say.

Relations between schools and the education watchdog have dramatically deteriorated since the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, who killed herself in January while waiting for an Ofsted report that downgraded her school to inadequate

Bramley Park Academy's was described as "exceptional" by inspectors