The Department for Education is consulting on revised standards for boarding schools and residential special schools in England. These standards are proposed to be published under section 87C of the Children Act 1989 as statements of national minimum standards, and will replace the current national minimum standards which were published in 2015.
All boarding schools and residential special schools in England must meet the relevant set of national minimum standards. Those standards have been reviewed and this consultation proposes changes to the structure of the standards, and changes to the standards themselves. These are designed to raise the bar in terms of the minimum standard of quality offered by schools, to achieve better outcomes for pupils.
The results of the consultation and the Department's response will be published on GOV.UK in Spring 2021, with the intention for the final standards to come into force in September 2021.
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