On 26 September, the Department for Education’s regional schools commissioner sent a ‘Minded to terminate’ letter to the school’s trustees. The school is exempt from delivering the literacy and mathematics requirements of the early years foundation stage. It is also not required to administer national tests at the end of key stage 1. The school’s funding agreement requires it to admit its pupils for national testing at the end of key stage 2 (Class 5) and key stage 4 (Class 10). The school’s website describes the school’s aims as striving ‘to balance the creative, the active and the academic… to develop children to their fullest potential as motivated, confident, self-reliant and responsible individuals with a life-long love of learning and a strong sense of the contribution they can make to society’. The school’s website is not compliant with the statutory requirements for an academy free school. In particular, information for parents on the impact of SEN and additional funding lacks detail and does not explain how it leads to improved outcomes for these pupils. The school has one pupil on its roll who is currently educated for one day each week at Inspection report: Steiner Academy Exeter, 9–10 October 2018 Page 10 of 13 ‘Choices’ alternative provision. Since June, the school has bought in targeted support from Devon County Council. Local authority officers have conducted reviews of SEN provision and the safeguarding arrangements.