Several raise a lack of support for pupils who have experienced mental health problems or peer-on-peer sexual abuse, leading in some cases to pupils being effectively “off-rolled”, which the Department for Education describes as removing a pupil from the school roll without a formal exclusion process, or encouraging a parent to remove their child when the move benefits the school rather than the family.
Since the staff concerns were reported by the Guardian last month, more than 30 ex-students have come forward to tell their stories. We are going public with our concerns now for the sake of the current student body.” This is an indictment of Holland Park’s leadership and governance, as well as of the two Ofsted inspections that found safeguarding to be effective. The letter’s co-author Zahra Enver, who has been collecting signatures online and via social media, said: “The toxic and often abusive environment characterised by teachers also existed for students. In one instance they say students’ photos were displayed on plasma screens around school to highlight their behavioural or academic failings.Ī 25-page appendix including personal testimonies has been sent to the schools inspectorate, Ofsted, and the Education and Skills Funding Agency, which oversees academies. They allege that young people were also publicly shamed and humiliated. Signatories to the ex-student letter, most of whom are named and left the school in the past four years, claim that they experienced a “toxic and abusive” environment in which some pupils’ emotional and psychiatric needs were neglected, that difficult pupils were taken out of school during Ofsted inspections, and that the school’s leadership encouraged excessive use of shouting as a form of discipline, which left young people feeling “anxious and unsafe”.
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