Member

Even with the statutory guidance announcement that the noble Baroness just made, the current guidance the Government have published, which they now propose to put on a statutory footing, still allows schools to have a “not seen, not heard” policy—the noble Baroness is shaking her head. I asked for confirmation from the department and got none, so in that silence I went to a number of school and trust leaders and asked them. The answer I got was that there is, at best, confusion and, at worst, an assumption, including from schools which currently have a “not seen, not heard” policy, that that can continue unchanged and “will continue to be the norm in schools”.