Schools: Standards
(asked on 16th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is her policy to include pupil referral units in the definition of coasting schools under the Education and Inspections Bill.
This question was answered on 22nd June 2015
The Education and Adoption Bill amends the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (EIA 2006) by including coasting schools as a new category of maintained school. The definition of maintained schools in the EIA 2006 does not include pupil referral units and they will therefore not be eligible to be defined as coasting schools.