Pupil Mobility
Key London Issues > Pupil Mobility
Some schools in inner London record in-year mobility as high as 60%. Mobility is defined by Ofsted as the total movement in and out of schools by pupils other than at the usual times of joining and leaving.
Research has identified four main causes of mobility: international migration, children moving within the UK because of housing, employment and homelessness within families, children changing schools, which can cover exclusions and voluntary movement; and individual movement, covering children going into care or moving between separated parents.
Issue 4 of the London Digest " Mobile Pupils, Mobile Schools " brings you short summaries of ten recent pieces of research exploring a variety of pupil mobility issues relevant to London. The summaries, which have been put together by the LERU editors, are based on published reports, journal articles and books.
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