‘Unfit for purpose’: Ofsted could face legal challenge from school leaders

As anger mounts over headteacher's suicide, group bids for judicial review into inconsistencies of rulings by watchdog

Senior school leaders are attempting to launch a judicial review against Ofsted on behalf of the whole sector, amid claims that schools feel powerless" to challenge unfair or inconsistent inspection judgments, the Observer has learned.

What Ofsted has called the outpouring of anger" from schools across the country over the suicide of Berkshire headteacher Ruth Perry in January, after the inspectorate downgraded her school, has shown no signs of abating.