Rebecca Cramer, CEO of Reach Schools, shares her experience of the new Ofsted inspection process with TES (formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement).

” On 23 September, the first day that inspections were resumed following necessary and important changes, I was sitting in my office willing the phone to ring so we could get through our first inspection in 10 years and stop having it hanging over us. I had just returned from maternity leave.

It definitely did feel better knowing The Call would only come on a Monday and that there wouldn’t be a one-word headline judgement, but it was hard to predict how much of a positive impact these changes would have.

At 10am the phone rang…”