The purpose of the school profile is to capture for parents a balanced assessment of each school's ethos, characteristics, and performance and improvement priorities. We believe it is vital that schools communicate information to parents; however, the school profile has not proved to be the most effective way of capturing the information parents want to know. Removing the requirement to produce a school profile means that governing bodies and schools will be freed from unnecessary administrative burdens and will have the autonomy to choose for themselves how to publicise their school to parents.
Subject to parliamentary approval, we expect this will be removed in the 2011/12 academic year.
