A Newbury headteacher – who refused to initially let Ofsted into her school after the death of fellow primary head Ruth Perry last year – has given her reaction to the Government’s planned school ratings changes, writes Dan Colquhoun. In March 2023 Flora Cooper said that she would not allow inspectors into the John Rankin Schools, following the death of the Caversham headteacher. Ms Perry’s family said that the mother-of-two took her own life in January 2023 after being told that her school – Caversham Primary, in Reading – would be downgraded from outstanding to inadequate by Ofsted. An inque…
