CYP Now - Exclusions: how do we ever justify giving up on a child?

The question of whether exclusions should be banned for the rest of the academic year as children adjust to schools reopening is not one to answer with a simple yes or no.

We need to understand the impact of exclusions on the children and also why we feel it might be necessary to use them.

With that in mind, this is not a radical call for the abolition of exclusions but simply a challenge for us all to reflect on the process and concept of exclusions and ask the question whether they are entirely necessary – especially as children return from the throws of a global pandemic with the associated turmoil and stresses to their lives.

We shouldn’t need to ‘ban’ exclusions. We should be creative and sophisticated enough to not need them!

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