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National Curriculum Tests

Our intention is for the school report card to be for every secondary and primary school, and to take forward both cards at the same time. We will consult in the next few weeks and produce a detailed plan in November, at the time of the one-year-on update on our children's plan. We will have a formal consultation in advance of the White Paper in the spring. We will need to sort out a number of details, and I hope that there will be an opportunity for discussion and to hear the views of the Children, Schools and Families Committee and experts in the House. On the issue that my hon. Friend has raised, I should say that the school report card will be important to parents as a simple and comprehensive view of a school's performance, alongside Ofsted reports and the raw data on the school. We publish clearly information that is compiled by others into school league tables. That information, of course, will continue to be published in a simple and accessible form, so school league tables will continue to be compiled and parents will continue to look at them. However, we hope that alongside the Ofsted report and those tables, the school report card will give parents a more comprehensive view of the school's performance that takes into account not only standards for the average child at the school, but how every child is supported to learn—value added in respect of the school—and some of the broader issues that matter to the well-being of children in a school. The aim is to capture the idea of the 21st-century school in one report card, and I hope that we will be able to discuss it in more detail in due course.