Teachers and pupils live in fear of Ofsted’s punitive inspections. It needs reforming now | Rebecca Leek

We’re not afraid of scrutiny and we all want to make our schools better – but this process is not the way to help children thrive• Rebecca Leek is executive director of Suffolk Primary Headteachers’ AssociationOfsted is younger than me. And yet, for those of us who have been in education for a couple of decades, the inspection regime is part of the furniture. Its presence permeates school classrooms, offices, staffrooms and corridors. The idea of it not being around seems unimaginable – but now calls for its reform are becoming hard to ignore.In the wake of the death of Ruth Perry, a...