Ruth Perry family furious as Ofsted single-word ratings are retained

Teaching unions share family’s disappointment after government says system has ‘significant benefits’Ofsted’s controversial single-word judgments are here to stay, the government has ruled, in a blow to campaigners who hoped they would be scrapped after the suicide of the primary school headteacher Ruth Perry.Perry’s sister, Prof Julia Waters, reacted with fury to the government’s statement, published on Thursday in response to an inquiry into Ofsted by MPs on