One-word Ofsted school ratings have been scrapped across the UK state sector with “immediate effect”, Labour has announced. As of September next year, parents will no longer be told whether the schools to which they’re sending their own children are “outstanding”, “good”, “requiring improvement” or “inadequate” by the ratings body – with the one- or two-word ratings axed in favour of so-called “report cards”. Teaching unions had given the single-word Ofsted ratings their own single-word descriptors, slamming them as “simplistic, reductive, unreliable and inhumane” – and the Government’s appare…