The joint DCSF and Ofsted consultation on well-being proposes using parents' and pupils' views to measure how well all maintained primary and secondary schools are doing on a range of issues, including promoting healthy eating and exercise, providing varied extra activities and discouraging drug and alcohol use.
The aim is 'to develop school-level indicators to improve the information available to schools to help them assess the well-being issues that pupils face and to evaluate the school's contribution to promoting pupil well-being.'
The consultation proposes two kinds of school-level indicator, based on the views of pupils and parents, relating to the Every Child Matters outcomes and the school's contribution to them.
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