Inspectorate decried

Welsh schools inspectorate Estyn is “destroying morale” and is not fit for purpose, delegates to the annual conference of the NASUWT teaching union in Wales heard last month.

A motion debated at the NASUWT Cymru conference in Cardiff accused the inspectorate of driving forward a political agenda resulting in “massive workload and stress” caused by inspection.

NASUWT’s general secretary Chris Keates said Estyn’s inspections regime was leading schools “to pile more pressure on teachers to focus on meeting the needs of inspection rather than the needs of the children and young people they teach”.

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