Can a child retake YEAR 10 if they relocate school?

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My step daughter is being relocated by her mother and is going to a different part of the country where i beleive they do a different curriculum to her current school.
My stepdaughter is being made to re-do her year 10. Can this be done? Does she need to be assessed for a retake? Surely the eductaional board would have a say in this. I mean they will be supporting a child in doing an extra year at school just because her mother fancies moving to another part of the country.

Has anyone ever encountered this?
I need to find out how this work.

Repeating Y10 is a very good option for students who move mid-GCSE, or who have a disrupted year.

We consider this a serious option at our school when it is in the best interests of the student, but then we are an independent school so not constrained by public funding.

It is very difficult to integrate a GCSE student into a new school after the start of Y10, as inevitably there will be a mismatch of courses. It's a lot to ask of a student to make the adjustments, especially if their move is coupled with a lot of emotional stress.

Who makes the decision to repeat the year?

Would she have to be assessed?

She is at a mainstream school and will be going to another mainstream high school when she moves

It would depend on the structures within the school. I would imagine that it would either be head of key stage, or the head teacher.

Yes, I've known a couple of students retake Year 10 after a move. The problem is that different schools use different exam boards for GCSEs so there is a chance that any work she has done this far is not applicable to their syllabus - for example, my Year 10 Media Studies groups has done one and a half pieces of written coursework out of three, so that's a big chunk to miss out on, and it's not as simple as just going way and doing it on their own. Also, schools have different options systems so she will probably not be able to do the same combination of subjects.

Thanks for the advice ladies.

I have emailed the schools and will hopefully get some form of response from them.