Inquest examined watchdog’s role in Ruth Perry’s decline after Reading primary school’s rating was downgraded
A “rude and intimidating” Ofsted inspection carried out inflexibly by poorly trained staff contributed to the death by suicide of the headteacher Ruth Perry, a coroner has concluded.
Heidi Connor, the senior coroner for Berkshire, said Perry’s suicide was “contributed to by an Ofsted inspection carried out in November 2022” of the school she led. Connor formally concluded that “during and after this inspection Ruth’s mental health deteriorated significantly” before she took her own life on 8 January 2023.
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