Headteacher of Caversham Primary School, Ruth Perry, took her own life on 8 January after a damning Ofsted report downgraded the school's overall rating from outstanding to inadequate.
Caversham Primary had previously been rated as outstanding but an Ofsted inspection in November 2022 found leadership and management issues related to"safeguarding", causing the rating to plummet - every other category was deemed good.
She added:"Ruth took her own life on January 8, all during that process every time I spoke to her, she would talk about the countdown. "I remember the very first day I saw her, rather than just speaking to her on the phone, a couple of days after the end of the Ofsted inspection, she came, she was an absolute shadow of her former self."Following Ms Cooper's blockade plans, Geoff Barton of the Association of School and College Leaders said:"Many school and college leaders and their staff find inspections and Ofsted judgements very traumatic, and this is often damaging to their wellbeing.
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