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Well-being Indicators. All maintained schools and new academies now have a duty to promote the well-being of their pupils.
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Well-being Indicators • All maintained schools and new academies now have a duty to promote the well-being of their pupils. • Well-being is defined as the five Every Child Matters outcomes: be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve; make a positive contribution, achieve economic and social well-being • The Children’s Plan announced that the Department would issue guidance for schools on the duty to promote pupil well-being and would also be developing “strong school-level indicators that, taken together, measure a school’s contributions to pupil well-being.” • These indicators will also be reflected in the new Ofsted inspection framework starting in 2009. • A joint DCSF/Ofsted consultation paper on school-level indicators was launched on 9 October • Two kinds of indicators proposed relating to (1) quantitative outcomes over which schools have significant influence and (2) the perceptions of pupils and parents of a school’s contribution to the ECM outcomes • Indicators will not hold schools to account for wider well-being issues over which they have limited control
Key Questions • Do you agree about the use and limitations of indicators? • Do you agree with the proposals for publication of the indicators? • Are these the right indicators relating to quantified outcomes? • Will the items listed in the paper yield appropriate indicators of pupils’ well-being and the school’s contribution to it? • Do you agree that an accreditation system as proposed above would be appropriate? • Do you agree that, where appropriate, for example in post 16, school-level survey of pupils and parent perceptions should be brought together with other surveys such as TellUs and the FfE to avoid duplication?