School accountability: should we let the courts decide?

There is a paradox at the heart of Ofsted. On the one hand, Ofsted’s defenders claim that its frameworks and handbooks aren’t prescriptive. After all, they do not say precisely how a school should go about ensuring that "leaders have a clear and ambitious vision for providing high-quality, inclusive education and training to all", nor do they explain what is meant by "a clear and ambitious vision". "Schools are free to choose how they achieve these things," Ofsted would say.
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