Addressing his union’s annual conference in Birmingham at the weekend, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said schools were no longer prepared to live with the “chaos” of government education reforms.
He focused his speech on the “constant upheaval” around assessment and government plans to turn all schools into academies.
He said that ministers were too pre-occupied with reforms to notice that schools needed the basics, such as school places for every child, enough teachers and sufficient money for building repairs and maintenance.
He told delegates: “Instead of focusing on these basic supply issues, we face the constant upheaval of assessment and top-down reorganisation. Changes are made at such a break-neck speed and at such volume that mistakes are inevitable.
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