Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ofsted chief Mick Wilshaw said giving schools a whole day’s notice of an Ofsted visit simply allowed too much time to sweep evidence of bad practice under the carpet making it difficult to give a grade of 'unsatisfactory' and recommend that they become academies.
The new system will itself replace the already recently revised reduction of the notice period from 48 to 24 hours. According to Wilshaw it is due to be implemented, “extremely quickly," since neither the government nor Ofsted have any other ideas on the table.
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