Schools with “low attainment” for their Pupil Premium students are to face more accountability measures, it has been revealed.
A Pupil Premium Action Plan will be required from schools that are in Ofsted category 3 for both their overall and leadership judgements if their disadvantaged students are not achieving highly enough.
Schools minister David Laws made the announcement last week. He said that the action plan would need to be drawn up in consultation with a National Leader of Education or similar “system leader”. Ofsted will also pass comment on the plan as part of its monitoring and inspection of “weaker” schools.
Mr Laws said: “Ofsted will take that plan, and adherence to that plan, into account when they decide the future of the school. If the school continues to fail – well Ofsted category 4 beckons.”
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