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Teacher workload proposals ignore hated Ofsted

COALITION ministers turned their backs on 44,000 browbeaten teachers yesterday with changes supposed to cut pressure ignoring the main focus of complaints — inspection agency Ofsted’s reign of terror.

One in 10 of England’s entire teaching workforce responded to the Department for Education “workload challenge.”

But unions unanimously condemned the outcome yesterday.

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