Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw also told the conference that he was trying to raise the standard of inspection teams and wants more current heads to become inspectors, with just over half of inspection teams already including a serving school leader.

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The apparent hack attack follows the approval of a new standard for deep packet inspection by a meeting last month of the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly.

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But a new report from an unannounced inspection team carried out by the CQC found evidence of sub-standard care.

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Sir John Krebs, chairman of Britain's Food Standard Agency, said now every German beef carcass entering Britain would be subject to automatic inspection.

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