The Office for Standards in Education is underperforming and must try harder, a survey of MPs suggests.
Only a quarter of MPs believe the inspectorate is effective, putting Ofsted mid-table in a league of government-funded bodies. The watchdog was more popular with Conservative than Labour MPs.
It came well behind the top-ranked Audit Commission, the local government watchdog, which was rated positively by more than half of MPs, but above the Equal Opportunities Commission, the survey of 125 MPs by nfpSynergy, a think tank, found.
