On 10/02/2012 21:36, Feargal Hogan wrote:
But I think you should switch the question around. There is a statutory requirement that ALL schools open for a minimum of 380 halfday sessions. http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/schooladmin/schoolyear/a0064221/length-of-school-dayyear
Ah! I didn't know that. That is genuinely useful information. Although I note that it includes a get-out for bad weather, so a school which closes due to snow isn't necessarily failing to meet it.
I think you should ask the DfE (on WhatDoTheyKnow) how many sessions each school in England (Scotland, Wales and NornIron are different) was open for last year?
I may well do exactly that.
It's highly likely that the response is that the information isn't held, which would allow a supplementary asking for a list of organisations responsible for monitoring compliance with this statutory duty? I think you will find that doesn't exist either. At which point you pass on this useful info to your MP (or someone else's MP) to ask awkward questions of Mr Gove and his henchmen in Smith Street.
I might have a word with my MP anyway, the next time I see him. If the data hasn't been collated previously then there is probably useful PR for the government in deciding to collate it in future. Nudge theory works both ways.
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