Weekly round-up: Ofsted complaints and Sunak’s British Baccalaureate

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• 4 in 10 senior Ofsted inspectors have never been a head
  Four in 10 senior inspectors employed by Ofsted in the past three years have never been a headteacher, Tes can reveal.
   
• Sharp rise in Ofsted reports changed after school complaints
  There has been a sharp increase in the proportion of Ofsted school inspection reports that are changed following formal complaints, new analysis of data has shown.
   
• Sunak’s British Baccalaureate is a ‘sketchy slogan’
  Rishi Sunak’s plans for a British Baccalaureate have been dismissed as a “sketchy slogan” that is “largely meaningless without more detail” by a union leader.
   
• Ofsted’s complaints overhaul a ‘missed opportunity’
  Ofsted’s complaints overhaul is a “missed opportunity” because it does not give schools a chance to go to an independent body to challenge inspection grades, headteachers’ leaders have warned.
   
• ‘Urgent’ plan needed to repair teacher pay damage, Keegan told
  Five teaching and school staff unions have issued a call to the education secretary to set out “urgent proposals” to fix teacher and school leader pay erosion.
   
• Families find school attendance rules ‘draconian’
  The relationship between schools and families is being strained by school-level attendance systems that feel “increasingly draconian to families”, a new report has found.
   
• Act to stop TAs leaving schools amid cost-of-living rise, DfE told
  The government should widen its teacher workforce strategy to target the tide of teaching assistants taking second jobs or leaving education to work in better-paid roles amid cost-of-living pressures, a report has warned.
   
• MPs quiz Keegan over county lines teacher training
  The education secretary has been asked by the Commons Education Select Committee to set out how teachers and school staff are trained to spot exploitation by county lines gangs.
   
• Ofsted: Many schools aren’t matching PE curriculum ‘ambition’
  Many schools are failing to meet the breadth and depth of the national curriculum, according to the latest Ofsted report on the quality of PE education in primary and secondary schools in England.
   
• Keegan: Some children prefer learning in Portakabins
  Some children prefer being taught in temporary buildings over classrooms, the education secretary said as she faced criticism about the concrete crisis.
   
• 174 schools now confirmed to have RAAC
  Twenty-seven new schools have been added to the list of those containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, one of which is teaching fully remotely. There are now 174 schools with confirmed RAAC, according to the DfE’s updated list.
   
• 8 in 10 school staff diverted from job by child poverty
  More than three-quarters of school staff are increasingly being pulled away from their usual jobs to deal with the effects of child poverty, according to a new report by the Child Poverty Action Group.