Peter Mansfield

@OliverDowden Maybe wear a tie to cover the shirt that wasn’t ironed. Aim for higher standards now you are a knight.

Wonderful drop by Wyllyotts Theatre today to visit the Potters Bar Health and Wellbeing Event. This brilliant event is held every year in Potters Bar and gives local residents the chance to have a mini health check, take part in taster sessions, and hear professional talks.

@PaulGarvey4 @Ofstednews @martyneoliver @dan_ofsted They expect school leaders to be open and honest during inspections. The results should be published. How can they be trusted?

Could your engagement and communication be any worse @RoryGribbell? After all you've said on here and you don't even publish the results of your questionnaire, because of what's contained! Laughable. @Ofstednews @martyneoliver @dan_ofsted schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-refuses…

The NAHT asked this of members in 2013. Other unions say similar. schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-naht-to… Heads, Principals, Senior Leaders: there are very good reasons for not inspecting your colleagues for Ofsted's purposes. Please now consider stopping. You are putting colleagues at risk.

New Ofsted report cards will create more anxiety on leaders with already 'concerningly high' stress levels, a wellbeing impact report commissioned by the watchdog has warned schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-report-…

@Rory_Gribbell @Ofstednews @VBraeh @Alex_Ofsted @SchoolsWeek Do you mean consistent high quality, accurate, carefully considered inspections? Just consistent could mean consistently poor.

Our excellent @Ofstednews evaluation team have been working up a range of new measures to measure and improve inspection consistency. I had the pleasure to work with @VBraeh and @Alex_Ofsted to share our proposals, reported on here in @SchoolsWeek: schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-plans-m…

@RobertJenrick The edge, not the tip.

The chaos engulfing the Government today is just a small taster of the carnage that is yet to come. The problems in this country are fixable. But sadly we must be prepared that it will get worse under Starmer before it can get better. In just over a year the Prime Minister has now lost his deputy prime minister, transport secretary, corruption minister and homelessness minister, all to scandal. And it should have been more. Who can forget Lucy Powell, now moved in a reshuffle, describing concerns about rape gangs as “dog whistle” politics? Or Lord Hermer’s past representing enemies of Britain such as Gerry Adams – a clear conflict of interest? Angela Rayner was ultimately forced to resign after Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives exposed her rank hypocrisy. But Keir Starmer should have got rid of her for the harm she caused the country. As housing and communities secretary she started the work on the chilling Islamophobia definition that is certain to curtail legitimate criticism of Islam. She has smothered business with unnecessary red tape that led to a downgrading of growth forecasts and fewer job opportunities for workers. She cut house building targets in London to spare the blushes of her friend, Sadiq Khan, who has repeatedly fallen short of the necessary number. Her housing policies saw five out of seven of her new homes set to go to immigrants and the prospect of homeownership moved even further from the grasp of young people. The Prime Minister’s authority is slipping away from him fast. Unable to deliver the big, radical changes the country is crying out for, he is now trapped, tinkering here and there while the British people suffer. The Government’s big “announcement” to mark the stage of “Phase 2” was his plan to ban energy drinks from under 16s (while, of course, also promising them the vote). If that’s the best Starmer can muster, he is well and truly out of ideas. The challenges we face as a country are huge. And while they didn’t start a year ago, they have become even more challenging while Labour ministers seemingly spend more time worrying about their own fates. The small boats are at record levels. The number of police officers has fallen and our streets feel lawless. More than half of all criminals sentenced to jail each year could avoid prison under Labour’s new sentencing bill. Every day, 1,100 patients wait over 12 hours for admission to A&E – up significantly. While Rayner stole the headlines this week, the altogether more worrying news is the markets are rapidly losing confidence in the Government’s ability to balance the books. Spooked by Reeves’ decision to tax, spend and borrow far more than she promised, long-term borrowing costs reached the highest level in 27 years this week. Rachel Reeves is now spending about £110bn a year to just service our debt. That’s more than we spend on our schools and police combined. It is no exaggeration to say that surging borrowing costs have the real potential to bankrupt the country. Unless Starmer changes course now, we will head towards a debt crisis that sees job losses and tax rises that will leave everyone poorer. He is dancing on the tip of the precipice.

@SchoolsWeek @Ofstednews But do the high expectations match or exceed the standards expected by the recipients of inspections?

🔎 'Consistency is such an important issue for Ofsted that it involves senior colleagues gathering every week to ensure we are meeting our own high expectations' @Ofstednews's Rory Gribbell and Dr Verena Braehler buff.ly/I40eSAV

@OliverDowden Why didn’t you sort it out when you were in power? Too busy awarding yourselves honours for failing our country? When are you going to earn them?

In the upcoming Budget, Labour must solve the loss in market confidence by taking decisive action on spending and by attracting inward investment. My interventions today.

@trussliz Like the Nottingham Live situation. Could you do something useful and have a word?

This is absolutely shocking. This constant attempt to silence Britons and suppress information is worthy of a totalitarian state. The counter-revolution can't come soon enough.

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Couldn’t you just leave? Go somewhere else? You wouldn’t be missed. We’d be better off.

We must leave the ECHR.

@RupertLowe10 What do you think about council leaders banning journalists?

Linehan today, you tomorrow. Make your objections known now.

@KemiBadenoch So grown up with the name calling. Are you a serious politician?

Rachel Thieves doesn’t care who she steals from, just as long as she can get her hands on your hard-earned money. RachelThieves.com

@michaelgove But you were consistently poor and were rewarded with a peerage. Part of the party and government which made our country poorer and let in Farage. If I was you I’d get out before anyone notices.

I wish the PM well - but what *is* the message here - growth? protecting the borders? tackling persistent absence in schools? Nope, just process, jargon, corp-speak….

@pritipatel Come on then. Present the evidence. Nail your colours to the mast. Don’t forget you thought Johnson was a good idea.

Rayner is abusing her position as a government minister for personal gain. She spends her time scheming over her property taxes and jockeying for political position. She is not fit to be a Minister of the Crown. mol.im/a/15052825

The lying tub of lard that is @BorisJohnson

@KemiBadenoch They’re not paying the price for Labour’s failure. Labour inherited your government’s mess. If you had any principles or standards you’d admit it and own it. Don’t forget how much you failed us.

My statement on the Epping migrant hotel injunction decision.

@TomStockwell @eyfsteacher_ I’m a retired HT. I asked teachers to keep a log as was concerned about workload. People worked a lot in the holidays, including me. We tried to be a lot smarter after this to cut out unnecessary tasks.

@peterjmansfield @eyfsteacher_ I don’t really - if someone was working more I’d suggest the school they were at had a workload issue

@RobertJenrick You could have put the country first when you were in power. You thought Johnson was a good idea.

Starmer has a choice. He can put the country first and sack Lord Hermer. Or put personal interest first and cling to his friend and former donor despite all the damage he’s causing. What will it be?

@TomStockwell @eyfsteacher_ How do you know it averages out at one day a week?

@peterjmansfield @eyfsteacher_ The original poster was suggesting this working week without holiday work. Even accounting for some holiday work (which probably averages out to 1 day per week off) and minus the bank holidays (which all get) the holiday is still good.

@TomStockwell @eyfsteacher_ Most teachers will work during the holidays to prepare work, assess, catch up etc.

@eyfsteacher_ Most professional jobs are not a 40 hour working week and most people have sig less holiday than teachers. This schedule works out at a 40 hour week in terms of the number of hours worked over the year and then divided by 45 (assuming lots of jobs have around 7 weeks holiday)