CYP Now - Calls for clarity over Ofsted off-rolling judgments

Disability campaigners are calling for clarity from Ofsted around "off-rolling", where schools are suspected of unfairly removing challenging pupils from a school’s roll.

Campaigners have called for clarity over Ofsted's ruling on off-rolling

The group SEND Action wants to know why the inspectorate has appeared to make seemingly conflicting comments around the practice at two different schools.

The regulator downgraded Holte School, in Birmingham, from “outstanding” to “requires improvement” after discovering in October that Year 11 pupils at alternative provisions had been removed from the school roll.

According to Ofsted, Holte School is not following “government advice about how pupils who study away from the school, at alternative provision, should be registered”.

It adds: “Leaders could not give inspectors a clear reason why they remove these pupils from the school roll in Year 11. There is no evidence that this practice benefits the pupils. It means that information the government publishes about the school is not accurate.

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