Interesting question and the written answer to it from Education Secretary, Michael Gove on 9th September
Henry Smith (Crawley, Conservative)
What advice has my right hon. Friend given to Ofsted on the assessment of free schools, such as the Discovery New School in my constituency, given that they do not always meet the rigid national criteria of other schools?
Michael Gove (Secretary of State, Education; Surrey Heath, Conservative)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue. Ofsted has, in its new revised handbook, taken account of the fact that more parents are exercising choice in a way that inevitably compels Ofsted to review its guidance, and explicitly it says:
“Certain types of schools (such as faith, Steiner and Montessori schools) exist as maintained or independent schools. When inspecting such…provisions, inspectors should familiarise themselves with the background information to these types of schools”.
One presumes that this applies equally to conductive education (as to "faith, Steiner and Montessori schools"), when inspecting schools such as Paces School.