Inclusion Strategy 2026–29 

Inclusion at Carshalton Boys Sports College

Inclusion at CBSC is not a department, a corridor, or a register. It is the everyday business of every classroom, and the measure of whether we are doing our job.                                                                                                                                                                               

CBSC is a large, non-selective 11–18 comprehensive serving St Helier ward and surrounding communities in the London Borough of Sutton — one of the most complex inclusion contexts in outer London.

Approximately one in three of our students lives in the most deprived 30% of areas nationally. Fifteen per cent of our roll carries a SEN designation, with social, emotional and mental health need the dominant profile.

A disproportionate number of our students arrive with elevated complexity, and mainstream provision at CBSC routinely holds need that, in other contexts, would be met in specialist settings.

We do not begin this work from a standing start. Our sustained, significantly positive Progress 8 for low prior attaining students — improving across three consecutive years — is the clearest evidence that high expectations and strong inclusion practice are not in tension. They are the same thing.

This strategy is published in response to the Schools White Paper Every Child Achieving and Thriving (DfE, February 2026), which requires every school to publish an Inclusion Strategy by 31 December 2026. It sets out our current practice, names honestly where we need to improve, and directs investment where the evidence says it will have most effect.

It is consulted on, published, reviewed annually, and updated in response to what the evidence and our community tell us. Where it is wrong, we will say so and change it.

 

To view the schools' current Inclusion Strategy click here.

To find out more about the national SEND reform programme, we recommend visiting DfE: SEND and alternative provision.