Keir Starmer says Ofsted change is about 'driving up standards'
The scrapping of single-phrase inspection headline grades for schools in England will be a relief for parents, the Prime Minister has said as he visited a primary school and chatted with students on their first day back.
Sir Keir Starmer spoke with pupils at Perry Hall Primary School in Orpington on Monday, telling one class that it is his Government’s job to “make sure that you get the best education you can”.
He, along with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, sat and quizzed Year Ones on their summer holidays before Sir Keir was grilled by Year Fours on why he wanted to be prime minister, on his values and on what he is going to do to help the environment.
Sir Keir spoke to the media during the visit and started off by defending the decision to scrap Ofsted single-word headline grades.
He denied sacrificing simplicity for parents and insisted the move “is about driving up standards”.
“Making sure we’ve got a richer picture so parents can see in a more accountable way the real strength of a school and making sure we’ve got the improvements in to catch schools quickly,” he said.
Sir Keir added: “We’ll be absolutely pressing schools on standards and I don’t accept that parents will be confused.
“I’ve got two children in secondary education and so we have ourselves had to look at schools, and I have to say, from our point of view, the single grade didn’t work very well because we want to know what about the other areas, what about this aspect?”
He said he thinks a lot of parents “will be really relieved” to have a “richer picture, more accountability and that you’ve got a Government that is absolutely determined to drive up standards”.
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