Question follow-through · 17689

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the practice of off-rolling.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
6 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the practice of off-rolling.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The government is clear that off-rolling is an unacceptable practice and the department continues to work with Ofsted to tackle it.Ofsted takes any use of unlawful exclusions and off-rolling very seriously. Where evidence of off-rolling is found by inspec...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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