Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 21
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Paragraph: 107
Take specific barriers into account when developing attendance metrics for SEND pupils.
Conclusion
Attendance and engagement should be seen as key metrics of educational outcomes for SEND pupils in specialist settings. However, the Department should take specific barriers into account when developing these metrics and ensure that they are not expected to behave identically to peers in other settings.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government discussed a new burdens assessment from Spring 2022 and how local authorities are already delivering expectations, rather than addressing the recommendation to develop specific attendance and engagement metrics for SEND pupils.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Paragraph Reference:
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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56. The Government recognises that there can be clinical and other reasons why absence rates are higher in special schools and for children with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans than for mainstream schools and for children without EHCPs respectively. Data is presented for standard absence metrics broken down by those with an EHC plan, SEN support and no SEN. Data is also presented for standard metrics by school type (primary, secondary and special). There are no specific measures only for pupils with SEN.
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