In Feb 2005 one of the first successful uses of the Freedom of Information Act revealed that 8 years earlier Chief Inspector of Schools Chris Woodhead and Ofsted overruled a report by his own inspectors that far from failing, inner-London comprehensive school, Islington Green, was doing well in difficult circumstances. As a result of this educational vandalism the school became the failing school he said it was as many outstanding but demoralised teachers quit their jobs and - in some cases, the teaching profession. By 2005, IGS had recovered from this setback to become one of London's most improved schools. But this did not stop the then New Labour government from closing the school three years later and reopening it as a semi-privatised academy.
