Breaking Point

Examining the disruption caused by pupil mobility

Many schools face diverse and multiple challenges which affect the whole learning environment and place huge demands on staff. These schools deliver daily specialist support for a range of additional educational needs, and also provide ongoing pastoral care for deprived pupils and their families coping with the effects of homelessness, relationship breakdown, drug and alcohol addiction and other problems associated with the complexities of modern living.

So often the schools that need to provide this extra support are the same schools which face continual classroom instability from an ever changing pupil roll and high levels of teacher turnover. This report uses the day-to-day experiences of teachers from 67 London primary and secondary schools to illustrate how high levels of pupil mobility help compound multiple disadvantages and show how this affects the equality of educational opportunity for all children in these schools.

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