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The MP raises concerns about how destinations data can be used to assess schools' performance, especially given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What steps is he taking to use destinations data to assess the effectiveness of schools and colleges? Does my right hon. Friend agree that destinations data is particularly important in the light of covid, and that we need our schools focused on helping young people to the destinations to which they were on track before lockdown?
We must never lose sight of how important it is to know what youngsters end up going on to do. Yes, we want them to leave school, college or university as well-rounded individuals with all the tools they need to succeed in life, but they have to be tools that lead them into employment so that they can continue to succeed. That is why destinations data is so important, and why it is quite right that Ofsted attaches such high importance to it.
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