What Next For Ofsted?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest news stories from the BBC. Today, we look at what’s next for Ofsted.

This follows an inquest into the death of head teacher Ruth Perry which ruled that Ofsted contributed to her death. The BBC’s education editor Branwen Jeffreys, professor of Sociology of Education at UCL Institute of Education, Alice Bradbury, and executive principal of Passmores cooperative, Vic Goddard, join Adam to discuss the future of the schools regulator.

And the sports minister of Saudi Arabia has denied accusations of sportswashing after his country won the right the host the 2034 World Cup. The Athletic’s senior football news reporter Matt Slater breaks down why Saudi Arabia are investing in sport. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Joe Wilkinson and Natasa Simovic. The technical producer was Matt Hewitt. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, it's been a big week for politics related stories,
0:08.0	what with the shenanigans around the government's Rwanda plan
0:11.7	and also the big names at the COVID inquiry.
0:14.3	We thought in this episode of newscast we'd look at two stories which are important in different
0:18.7	ways that might not have crossed your radar because of the competing news so that's what we'll do in this
0:25.2	episode.
0:26.2	Newscast.
0:27.2	Newscast from the BBC.
0:28.2	Why can't people buy a house?
0:30.2	Look at their wages.
0:31.2	Do you know any questions on things that are not related to math.
0:33.0	People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
0:37.5	The era of global warming has ended.
0:40.0	The era of global boiling has arrived. It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done, Kia.
0:46.3	I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.
0:50.3	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
0:53.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and the first of the stories that we're going to cover that we thought went a bit under the radar this week was the ruling by the coroner in the case of Ruth Perry. She was the head
1:06.8	teacher from Caversham Primary School in Reading who took her own life at the start of the year after she received an inadequate
1:15.1	rating from Ofsted, the school inspectors, for her primary school.
1:20.0	And the coroner delivered their ruling on Thursday and Heidi Connor, that's her name,
1:26.0	ruled that the offstead inspection contributed to Ruth Perry's death.
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