Sentences with phrase «to exclude pupils»

She wants to change the status of teaching excluded pupils in the same way Teach First changed the status of teaching in a complex inner - city school.

The government must focus on the increase in pupils being excluded with mental health needs and how the mental health needs of excluded pupils are being met.

At present, schools are only going to become more likely to permanently exclude pupils who may affect their scores.

The government has defended the right of head teachers to exclude pupils from school, after figures show a large number of primary - age children are removed from lessons every year.

Schools are asking for more places in pupil referral units for excluded pupils as a result of new accountability measures, a senior council official has claimed.

The finished research will produce an up - to - date picture of where excluded pupils are being sent — and whether it's any good or not.

Leaders of private schools for excluded pupils and those with special educational needs have hit back at criticism.

The guidance reminds headteachers they should «as far as possible» avoid permanently excluding any pupil with an Education Health and Care Plan, which is a statement of special educational need.

«We have given headteachers more powers to tackle poor behaviour and have ensured they have the confidence to exclude pupils when this is necessary.»

The news comes after a report by the Centre for High Performance found that some academy trusts exclude pupils to improve the overall performance of the school's grade statistics.

Part 6 of the Act makes it unlawful for the responsible body of a school to discriminate against, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil in relation to admissions, the way it provides education for pupils, provision of pupil access to any benefit, facility or service, or by excluding a pupil or subjecting them to any other detriment.

Their report, released last month, found that schools are informally excluding pupils who require SEN support «too readily», and that as a group they are particularly prone to being excluded.

According to Department for Education exclusion guidance, local authority maintained schools are only allowed to exclude pupils because of behavioural issues, and it is unlawful for pupils to be sent away because of factors such as attainment.

Other research has also suggested that some schools exclude pupils in the run up to their GCSEs to improve their league table rankings.

New, highly significant research carried out by the Guardian and published today for the first time has revealed the huge extent to which English «faith» schools exclude pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM).

A # 4 million pot to fund «innovative» projects that return excluded pupils to mainstream schools was also announced.

Daulby suggested that information, advice and support services (IASS)-- council bodies that support parents of children with special educational needs — should be extended to cover excluded pupils too.

The quality of alternative provision for excluded pupils varies wildly across the country, and even between adjacent authorities, exclusive data obtained by Schools Week reveals.

Just one per cent of excluded pupils receive five passes at GCSE including English and Maths.

Headteacher Dave Whitaker, who works with SEND and excluded pupils at Springwell Learning Community in Barnsley, advocating «unconditional positive regard» instead.

The school which excluded the pupil pays the AP institution's costs up to # 10,000, and the council steps in to provide additional cash where necessary, though this is rare.

Experts have warned that headteachers are sometimes excluding pupils to flag the severity of their mental health issues to their local authority, because pupils are otherwise not getting the support they need.

Excluding pupils temporarily or permanently for non-disciplinary reasons is unlawful.»

Moore Blatch education expert, Janata Ali says that some academies are choosing to informally exclude pupils due to their immigration status, with students and their families appealing these decisions.

This agenda has become increasingly significant in the context of an increased focus in the UK over the last two decades towards inclusive education, where schools are expected to educate all pupils within a mainstream setting and to «actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude pupils with special educational needs (Department for Education 2001, p. 5).»

A sheet with data about permanently excluded pupils in the UK.

We have given head teachers more powers to tackle poor behaviour and have ensured they have the confidence to exclude pupils when this is necessary.

According to the report, «every cohort of permanently excluded pupils will go on to cost the state an extra # 2.1 billion in education, health, benefits and criminal justice costs.

«Nevertheless teachers must have the power to exclude pupils from the classroom for violent behaviour.

A report by the Centre for High Performance last week revealed some academy trusts exclude pupils to change the profile of their intake and increase results.

The Equality Duty states that: It is unlawful for the responsible body of a school to discriminate against, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil in relation to admissions, the way it provides education for pupils, provision of pupil access to any benefit, facility or service, or by excluding a pupil or subjecting them to any other detriment.

«If we know that sometimes headteachers are excluding pupils because they think they will access specialist care, but actually there are not sufficient resources, that's really worrying.»

The announcement of the free schools wave is part of a wide range of measures aimed at improving outcomes for excluded pupils.

AP experts warmly welcomed the white paper's proposal that the results of excluded pupils should count in schools» league table performance.

The move was criticised by government ministers who warned that excluding a pupil for any reason other than bad behaviour was against the law.

And children who have difficulties attending school (traveller children, excluded pupils, children with caring responsibilities, sick children, etc) can now participate in their education and school life in a way that would have been thought impossible in the past.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «All councils must ensure children are educated in a placement which meets their needs and we have been clear that schools have a duty to follow our strict rules when excluding pupils.

From a school's perspective, if the hairstyle breaches the school's uniform policy, and the policy has been properly drafted taking into consideration the points raised above, the school is entitled to discipline the pupil in accordance with its behaviour and discipline policy and, if the breach is serious enough, to exclude the pupil.

These schools can't recall when they last had to exclude a pupil, because everyone is too engaged in having fun to cause any trouble!

But Schools Week found free schools are more likely to exclude pupils than local - authority maintained schools and converter academies at both secondary level and at special schools.

The «complexities and subtleties» of special schools, as well as pupil referral units and alternative provision, which take in excluded pupils, were «not always appreciated.»

But Schools Week's own analysis of the exclusion data has found that free schools are actually more likely to exclude pupils than other schools.

If a school is found to have wrongly excluded a pupil, they may be told by the appeals panel to fund the alternative education of the pupil.

Excluded pupils should be protected by a «bill of rights» that would allow proper scrutiny of their school's decision to kick them out, the influential chair of the...

When pressed by Hull MP and former NUT activist Emma Hardy on whether changes to gradings could reward schools that took large numbers of pupils with special education needs or excluded pupils, Spielman said this was an «interesting suggestion for the new framework».

The practice of academies that exclude pupils to skew their results and claim «rapid improvements» is set to be stamped out under reforms that will keep schools accountable for the grades of excluded youngsters.

There will be reforms to the free schools programme, a review of provision for excluded pupils, and a new fund to trial teaching approaches bright pupils, in a much - anticipated action plan Justine Greening will set out today.

Little research has been done on what makes a difference for excluded pupil's educational outcomes.