The ‘maverick’ headteacher who’s proving Ofsted wrong

Dr Kulvarn Atwal runs one outstanding school in London and has been reviving another. Yet they’re still at risk of being snatched away, writes James Moore

Chief inspector Amanda Spielman, in a recent speech, complained that struggling to retain staff ‘can lead to a lack of continuity and consistency for children’ (PA Archive)

As a columnist for The Independent, I regularly find myself covering stories concerning the way things operate in Britain that leave me with headaches of fearsome intensity.

Here is a classic example, a textbook case of bad policy and everything the Department for Education (DfE) and the school inspectors at Ofsted are doing wrong.

It is, needless to say, our children who are on the receiving end of this.