Pupil to be deleted from the school roll
Schools in Barking and Dagenham are required to inform their Local Authority of every* child removed from their school roll.
This must be done within one school day of the child being removed from roll - The School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024, section 13.-(4),(5) & (6).
*Exceptions are:
- cohort moves, and those who will cease to be of compulsory school– last Friday in the June of Yr. 11)
- if a child with no school place was allocated 2 schools and enrolled at the other school.
Legal and borough procedures for adding or removing a child’s name from the roll of a school (DOCX, 339 KB). A technical guidance document for schools in Barking and Dagenham.
Important
Please submit one ‘off-roll’ form per child and add siblings in the ‘sibling section’.
For radio button ‘f’: Please note that schools in this L.A have a local agreement in place of a ‘10-day period of grace’. This will allow the L.A EHE Officer to confirm that the parent understands what it means to home educate and has made the decision freely. The EHE Officer will then inform, the school as to whether the child can be removed from roll, or not. Please contact Diane Pierre on email diane.pierre2@lbbd.gov.uk (Phone: 020 8227 3369 or 07870278319.
For radio button ‘g1’: When a child has stopped attending because s/he no longer resides in this country - Schools should, as far as is reasonably possible, establish a new address and/or school in the country that the child has moved to. It is recommended that schools undertake a home visit to satisfy themselves that the family have actually moved. If there are safeguarding concerns, the school should submit a MARF to Social Care. If the child has an allocated social worker, the school must inform that social worker immediately.
For radio buttons ‘h’ and ‘i’: schools will need to complete the CME audit form (DOCX, 426 KB) when the whereabouts of the child cannot be established. Before the child can be removed from roll, this form needs to be completed and sent to Children Missing Education Officer, Vanessa Radke on email Vanessa.Radke@lbbd.gov.uk (Phone: 07870 278320 or 020 8227 3336).
