Kaye Wiggins for the TES reports on Sir Michael Wilshaw’s comments at the Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation Summit.

Headteachers should be given the power to impose fines on “feckless” parents who do not attend parents’ evenings or make sure their children arrive at school with the right books, Ofsted’s chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.

Speaking today at a Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation summit on the pupil premium, Sir Michael said that when he was a headteacher he “would have loved” to be able to impose fines on parents who he thought were not “supporting the school”.

In an outspoken session, Sir Michael also said that he was “sick to death” of hearing “silly things” about Ofsted; that it was “incredibly tedious” to argue that fear of a negative Ofsted judgement was deterring potential school leaders and that as a headteacher he had written “very nasty” letters in which he had accused people of being “bad parents”.

Read the full article here.