Before the start of the next academic year—at the very latest—the Department should issue robust guidance on how the section 19 duty on local authorities to provide children with a suitable full-time education should be fulfilled by local authorities. Where local authorities are failing to discharge this duty, the sanction should be in the form of limiting their Ofsted rating.

Before the start of the next academic year—at the very latest—the Department should issue robust guidance on how the section 19 duty on local authorities to provide children with a suitable full-time education should be fulfilled by local authorities. Where local authorities are failing to discharge this duty, the sanction should be in the form of limiting their Ofsted rating. Type: conclusion | Number: 31 | Paragraph: 73 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: We agree with the Committee on the importance of this issue. On 6 July, we laid regulations that mean that no child under the age of 16 can be placed in unregulated accommodation. These regulations came into force on 9 September. Any placement made on or after that date must be in regulated provisio