Ofsted chief rebukes Church of England: We need powers to inspect Sunday schools
The proposals to allow inspectors in to 'out-of-school' educational settings, first mooted under David Cameron's premiership, were eventually dropped in 2016 after a personal intervention by the Archbishop of Canterbury amid warnings they could lead to Ofsted inspectors sitting at the back of Sunday school classes.
But today the new head of Ofsted put the plans back on the table and insisted rogue practices in a small segment of out-of-school education settings 'need to be tackled'.
Amanda Spielman rebuked the Church of England for opposing the plans and insisted new legislation was necessary to monitor 'what is happening under the radar in so-called out-of-school provision'.
She insisted that 'no one is proposing a troop of inspectors turning up at Sunday schools' but the previous proposals by the Department for Education wanted to force institutions that teach under-19s for more than six...
Paul Fountain | 1/30/2009
