Is this where they discovered they'd lost 10,000 school kids? That is the factoid that crept into a lot of newspaper headlines. It's a Department for Education and Skills estimate, but the bulk of this report covers Ofsted's look at how a sample of 10 English local education quthorities (LEAs) are responding to excluded and truanting pupils. So it links clearly to Every Child Matters and its preventive agenda.
And what's the story? Pockets of good practice are there but quality is very patchy and too many schools and LEAs seem to be shirking responsibility.
They are not nearly robust enough in tracking pupils or taking an interest in their whereabouts, achievements or destinations.
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