article_snippet: Tristram Hunt said a new peer review system would free up teachers from an ‘avalanche of bureaucracy’ and increase confidence in the regulation process.
article_snippet: The proposals, which would result in Ofsted taking a less hands-on approach, could be a reality by 2020 if Labour was elected, Tristram Hunt said.
article_snippet: Tristram Hunt acknowledged that the regulator had been a vehicle for progress, but said the regulator was beginning to ‘choke something far more precious’, and threaten the ‘joy’ of schooling.
article_snippet: Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in Liverpool, Tristram Hunt said: ‘We can begin the process of “mass devolution” where important powers over professional standards, quality assurance, curriculum development and peer review are handed over to profession-led bodies – and we will.
article_snippet: ‘Ofsted needs to move towards a supportive, light-touch, profession-led, centrally moderated, peer review system of inspection.
article_snippet: I want the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in Liverpool to hold me to account for moving towards the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in Liverpool over the course of the next Parliament.
article_snippet: Ofsted would regulate this process, although the details of how the system would work have not been finalised.
article_snippet: He added: ‘I want to see an inspectorate that moves beyond box-ticking and data-dependence.
article_snippet: I want to see an inspectorate that allows heads with a strong track record the space to innovate and develop a richer criterion of school achievement.
article_snippet: Priya Dutta, spokesman for the Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘the system needs an overhaul, and in general we would welcome proposals for this.
article_snippet: I’m slightly wary of Ofsted taking a step back because I think there needs to be an independent teaching review body.
highlights_snippet: Tristram Hunt said it would free teachers from 'avalanche of bureaucracy'
  New proposals would result in Ofsted taking a less hands-on approach .