Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Correspondence 17 April 2018: schools, published by the Skills and Funding Agency, and pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133784, on Home Education: Assessments, who has responsibility for ensuring that children sit SATs.

Primary-school head teachers have a statutory duty to ensure that all pupils in their school who can sit the Key Stage 1 and 2 national curriculum tests do so. They have discretion to determine that it is inappropriate for a particular pupil to sit the tests (for example, if they have not completed the relevant programme of study or cannot access the tests). Home-educated children do not have to sit the Key Stage 1 or 2 tests.