School inspections deeply toxic, thinktank says

U.K: School inspectors' reports should be scrapped and replaced with write-ups by parents, students and teachers, according to the thinktank Demos.

The way the government currently holds schools to account is "profoundly toxic", the thinktank argues in a report published on Tuesday.

Inspectors' views of schools are pitted against those of students and teachers, with inspectors' "singular voice allowed to dominate", says the study, entitled Detoxifying School Accountability.

James Park, the report's author and a Demos associate, recommends that instead of Ofsted inspectors publishing their reports schools should collect data each year from teachers, students and parents produce "an honest account of what is strong and what is less strong in the school".