Petition · past parliament · Department for Education

Reverse the decision to allow Ofsted one-word judgements to remain.

Closed 756 signatures

What the petition asks

We want the Government to reverse this decision and abolish one-word overall judgements. We believe that they are harmful and misleading.
In January a report from the cross-party Education Select Committee called for an alternative to the current single-word overall judgements. The government rejected the Select Committee's recommendation and ignored coroner’s concerns raised in a Prevention of Future Deaths report and raised by education professionals. We don't believe that they sufficiently quantified what the significant benefits are linked to single word judgements for schools or parents.

Timeline

13 May 2024 Petition opened for signatures
29 May 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 756
Status Closed
Department Department for Education
Opened 13 May 2024
Closed 29 May 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.