Weekly round-up: Ofsted attacked, teacher shortages and behaviour

It’s been a busy week in education. Catch up on all your must-read Tes content from the past seven days right here:

• School leaders call for Ofsted pause after death of Ruth Perry 
  At the start of the week, Ofsted was urged to pause its inspections by teachers’ and heads’ unions because of the strength of feeling after the death of headteacher Ruth Perry.
   
• Ofsted inspections: the legal rights of schools 
  Amid talk of some schools boycotting Ofsted, one legal expert explained the potential consequences for schools that refuse an inspection.
   
• Spielman: Inspection pause not ‘in children’s best interests’
  On Friday Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman said that stopping school inspections was not the right course of action, adding that the watchdog knows that inspections “can be challenging” and always aims to “carry them out with sensitivity”.
   
• GCSEs 2023: Invigilator shortage fears as student anxiety spikes
  Fears are growing over a shortage of invigilator staff to oversee students sitting GCSE and A-level exams this summer as leaders warn of the “most anxious cohort they’ve ever had”.
   
• Teacher pay: Union calls for long-term deal 
  The Association of School and College Leaders has called for a “long-term commitment to funding over a number of years” to reverse the “significant real-terms decline” in teacher pay rates, in its submission to the School Teachers’ Review Body.
   
• ‘Rumbling crisis’ in behaviour management, says DfE tsar 
  Schools have a “rumbling crisis” in behaviour management, the Department for Education’s behaviour adviser has said, citing the “shocking” number of teachers reporting poor behaviour.
   
• Revealed: Teacher vacancy regional hotspots 
  Secondary school teacher vacancies have soared by up to 36 per cent above pre-pandemic levels in some regions, a Tes analysis of the latest data reveals.
   
• Recruitment crisis: DfE set to miss 2023-24 targets 
  The government is set to fall short of its teacher trainee recruitment targets for the second year in a row, despite increasing bursaries, according to an expert forecast.
   
• Why we need a long-term strategy to tackle this recruitment crisis
  We must have a long-term plan to make teaching more attractive to graduates - and that means better pay and compensation for the flexible working that they can enjoy in other professions, writes Jack Worth, of the National Foundation for Educational Research.
   
• MPs launch inquiry into teacher shortages 
  The recruitment and retention difficulties that schools are facing are to be investigated in a new inquiry by the Commons Education Select Committee, with one former minister warning that the government must “urgently identify solutions”.
   
• DfE reviews ECF amid workload fears
  The Department for Education has launched a consultation on the Early Career Framework and initial teacher training curriculums, saying that it could “inform amendments to the frameworks”.
   
• MAT school improvement probe launched 
  A major new inquiry to uncover the best approaches that multi-academy trusts are using to improve schools has been opened by the Confederation of School Trusts.
   
• Keegan promises draft transgender guidance this spring 
  The government is aiming to publish draft transgender guidance for schools “later in the spring” for consultation, education secretary Gillian Keegan has said.