Parents back more public information on schools

PARENTS strongly favour a wider range of information about their children’s schools being available to the public, academic research has found.

Less than half of people with children still at school or college think primary schools give parents enough information on the schools’ performance, falling to just over two-in-five parents responding to the same question about second-level schools.

Only half of those surveyed believed schools give parents enough information about how their children are doing, although improved reporting guidelines have been offered to schools since the research was carried out.