Member

Finally, Amendment 230, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Addington, seeks to review the practice of off-rolling in schools. I agree with the noble Lord that off-rolling is unacceptable, and we will continue to work to tackle it, including with Ofsted. Ofsted treats off-rolling seriously and, where evidence is found, this could impact a school’s leadership and governance evaluation. On the understandable point that we need to understand the scale of the problem to be able to address it, since September 2025, local authorities have access to a weekly report identifying any pupil of compulsory school age whose name has been removed from a school roll in England and has not subsequently been added to another. This report has been downloaded over 2,000 times this academic year by 147 local authorities to support their usual checks to identify and locate children who, for example, may be missing education. But we will go further and are also considering how we can strengthen the accountability system for pupil movement to ensure that every child can achieve and thrive. We will have more to say about that in the near future.