Chief Inspector of Schools doesn’t understand education law - 24 June 2010 |
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Tory MP Graham Stuart, the new Chair of the Commons Education Select Committee, has launched a searing attack on the recent Ofsted report on home education.
He described the report itself as “an unpleasant hangover of the last government,” and Ofsted’s chief inspector Christine Gilbert’s attempts to defend it as “deeply concerning.”
This is likely to be welcomed not only by home-educating families, but also but the countless others who have in recent years become increasingly irritated by the state’s increasing intrusion into family life.
Astonishingly, the Ofsted report revealed that the Chief Inspector of Schools doesn’t understand education law. The report wrongly claimed that local authorities have a statutory duty to ensure that children receive a suitable education, whereas in fact this responsibility in fact rests with parents. Mr Stuart said, “It is astonishing that the Chief Inspector of Schools should stray onto home education and get it so wrong.”
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