Ofsted may be waking up to its independent obligations | Letters

The beauty of regulatory bodies is that they neatly centralise power and devolve blame, argues Professor Saville Kushner.Hitherto, the fiction of Ofsted’s impartiality and independence has been belied by its insistence on holding schools to account for implementing policy – with a studied avoidance of the policy itself.This is the beauty (for government) of all regulatory bodies – they neatly centralise power and devolve blame.