Ofsted does not want to inspect Sunday schools, but will do it if the government asks, the head of the education watchdog has told MPs.
A visibly uneasy Sir Michael Wilshaw told the Education Select Committee in mid-June that he ‘no longer stood by’ his previous comment that Sunday schools should be registered and inspected.
He also sidestepped a question about how Ofsted could train inspectors to have a detailed understanding of every religion. The government has consulted on giving Ofsted legal power to investigate any setting in England that provides instruction to children for more than six to eight hours in any week.
