The author's experiences are historic. In 2012, the notice period for inspections was reduced to the afternoon before the inspectors turned up, but prior to tha

The author's experiences are historic. In 2012, the notice period for inspections was reduced to the afternoon before the inspectors turned up, but prior to that it could be several weeks: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-education-inspections-announced https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-education-insp... The London Challenge was implemented to turn around the issues in London schools that the author recounts, and did so remarkably successfully: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Challeng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Challeng