A head teacher who took her own life ahead of a school inspection report was under “intolerable pressure”, her family has said.
Ruth Perry was waiting for an Ofsted report that would rate her primary school in Reading as inadequate.
The National Education Union, school leaders’ union NAHT and the Association of School and College Leaders have called for inspections to be halted.
The Department for Education said inspections were “hugely important”.
Ms Perry’s family said teaching had been her “passion and vocation” for 32 years and they had been left “devastated” by her death on 8 January.
In the Ofsted report, the watchdog rated Caversham Primary School as inadequate.