Leading lawyer accuses Ofsted of absence from education during coronavirus crisis

A leading lawyer and school governor has accused Ofsted of failing to guide teachers over “best practice” during the coronavirus pandemic.

In a letter published by The Times on Wednesday, David Wolfson QC suggested that since suspending all routine inspections on March 17  - when schools were closed in the lockdown - Ofsted has had “little idea what is actually going on” with efforts to teach children online.

Mr Wolfson is a school governor at Kerem Primary in Hampstead Garden Suburb.

With mounting concerns about the impact of coronavirus on education for children, he writes: “I am a governor of a small primary school whose head teacher and staff have made sterling efforts to provide as much education online and now in-school as possible.’’