1. www.southwark.gov.uk Destination Unknown: Children Missing Education and Deletion of Pupils from School Roll (September 2015) Neil Gordon-Orr, Early Help Central Strategic Manager (neil.gordon-orr@southwark.gov.uk)

2. www.southwark.gov.uk Michael Wilshaw HMCI Letter, July 2015 ‘potentially high numbers of pupils… are being deleted from school admissions registers without either the schools or the local authorities having an accurate understanding of where those pupils have gone’ ‘inconsistent practices for recording and reporting’ & ‘poor communication and coordination between schools and local authorities’

3. www.southwark.gov.uk Michael Wilshaw HMCI Letter, July 2015 ‘makes it very difficult… for schools and local authorities to distinguish the minority of children who may be at risk from the majority who will be safe’ ‘We cannot be sure that some of the children whose destinations are unknown are not being exposed to harm, exploitation or the influence of extremist ideologies’

4. www.southwark.gov.uk Statutory Duties (1) Schools must inform Local Authorities ‘of any pupil who is going to be deleted from the admission register’. When a pupil is deleted from a school roll, the school has a statutory duty to upload a Common Transfer Form (CTF) to the DfE School-to-School (S2S) website. Children with no known destination can be uploaded as ‘Lost Pupil’ on S2S.

5. www.southwark.gov.uk Statutory Duties (2) Local Authorities must seek ‘to establish (so far as it is possible to do so) the identities of children in their area who are of compulsory school age but are not registered pupils at a school, and are not receiving suitable education otherwise than at a school’

6. www.southwark.gov.uk Southwark Position High mobility: 10.5% of the Southwark population leave the area each year, with 1.5% of the population leaving the UK (GLA 2015 estimate). In Spring term 2015, 603 children left a Southwark school (School Census), with 200 identified as having started at another local school or another known destination (based on matching data with school census and Southwark’s education database, Capita One).

7. www.southwark.gov.uk Moved overseas: outcome of CME 30 children referred as CME identified as having moved abroad in 2014-15: India (3), Turkey (2), Australia (2), Egypt (2), Austria, Bolivia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Ireland, Lithuania, Peru, South Africa, Uganda, USA (1 each). No evidence of correlation with areas associated with FGM or radicalisation. But 8 children with no country recorded.

8. www.southwark.gov.uk Southwark process If child appears to have stopped attending, discuss with EWO in first instance. School should carry out initial checks (phone, letter, home visit if possible). Early Help service can check address on Housing and Council Tax systems (email CME@southwark.gov.uk). CME@southwark.gov.uk If no destination school confirmed, refer as CME on CAF to earlyhelp@southwark.gov.ukearlyhelp@southwark.gov.uk

9. www.southwark.gov.uk Summary If a child has left your school (other than at school leaving age) without you knowing destination, please find out as much as you can and then let us know. We will treat the case as potentially CME – the outcome will be confirmed with school for deletion from roll.