With political madness raging all around us, the Labour Party still managed to make some policy pledges at its conference, including plans to scrap Ofsted should it come to power.
This promise wasn't as universally popular as some might have expected. While the largest teaching union gave it the thumbs up, the headteachers association said that although reform was needed, it didn't want to scrap the inspection body.
And the plan to hand checking of schools and early years settings back to local authorities is potentially concerning. If we take early years, council have been stripped of so much funding and responsibility for the sector that few would have the staff and means to take this on.
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