Ex-Ofsted chief launches scathing attack on Education Secretary

The Bill is split into two sections, with the wellbeing side focused on improving children’s safety.

The wellbeing side has received broad cross-party support but the proposed school reforms have faced widespread criticism, particularly for their impact on academies.

Under the proposed changes, academies will be forced to teach the national curriculum for the first time and lose their power to recruit expert teachers that do not have official qualifications.

Education Alliance chief executive Jonny Uttley said the backlash was a red herring’ and that critics were trying to “rewrite history” A government source said: “ Amanda Spielman should spend less time criticising the reforms this Government is bringing and more time reflecting on her failure at Ofsted and on a teaching profession that entirely lost confidence in her.

Much of this agenda has been influenced by education union leaders and activists.

It is remarkable that as yet there has been so little parent concern.

It will probably take a while for parents to see through the polished verbiage and jazz hands.

But unless they do see through it, and exert enough pressure to counteract union dominance, it is current and future generations of children the people who were most harmed by lockdowns will bear the brunt of these changes.