And, although I increasingly think pay-per-pupil comparisons are imperfect (there will always be a tendency for this to decrease, as the org gets larger, unless we think leader pay should double as pupil numbers double), the following two charts also give a flavour:

A chart, generated by Copilot using data I provided, offers some sense of this:

See also data from Children’s Society’s annual Good Childhood Report, documenting pronounced decline in “mean happiness with school measure”. Captured in part by this graph:

This second graph is also striking.

Ahead of the chief inspector's appearance before the Education Select Committee tomorrow morning, here's a piece recently published in the current edition of NEU's Educate magazine: "Ofsted reform? Sounds like a job for...Ofsted".