CYP Now - ADCS president calls for review of head teachers' powers to exclude pupils

The head of the Association for the Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has called for a review into head teachers’ powers to exclude students.

ADCS head Rachel Dickinson has called for action on exclusion and off-rolling

Speaking at the National Children and Adult Services Conference in Bournemouth, ADCS president Rachel Dickinson said: “It’s time to review head teachers’ powers to exclude pupils unchecked.”

The Department for Education states that “head teachers can exclude a child if they misbehave in or outside school”.

She also called for a crack-down on off-rolling, defined by Ofsted as “the practice of removing a pupil from the school roll without a formal, permanent exclusion or by encouraging a parent to remove their child from the school roll, when the removal is primarily in the interests of the school rather than in the best interests of the pupil.”

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