Closed petition Reverse the decision to allow Ofsted one-word judgements to remain.

Closed on 30 May 2024

We want the Government to reverse this decision and abolish one-word overall judgements. We believe that they are harmful and misleading.

In January a report from the cross-party Education Select Committee called for an alternative to the current single-word overall judgements. The government rejected the Select Committee's recommendation and ignored coroner’s concerns raised in a Prevention of Future Deaths report and raised by education professionals. We don't believe that they sufficiently quantified what the significant benefits are linked to single word judgements for schools or parents.