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Ofsted gives parents a chance to have their say on schools

Parents will be able to give their comments on their child's school whenever they like, on a new website called Parent View.

However, they will be limited to answering a closed number of 12 questions, marking their responses from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’ and be unable to leave any general comments.

Ofsted said that the questions were carefully chosen with input from a panel of parents to cover the questions that parents said were the most important to them.

Anyone will be able to view the questions, which will cover all state-funded primary and secondary schools in England, including academies and free schools.

In response to concerns from schools and the parents’ panels about the security of the website, parents will need to register with a password but all responses will be anonymous.

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