No More Exclusions (NME), a campaign group made up of teachers, school staff, professionals working with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), social workers and youth workers among others, is urging government “to halt all forms of exclusion and exclusionary practice in schools urgently and with immediate effect”.
In its latest report School Exclusions During the Pandemic: Why We Need a Moratorium, NME states: “Exclusions ruin lives, and young people who are excluded during the pandemic are already likely to be facing extremely difficult circumstances.”
Research set out in the report, based on Freedom of Information requests submitted to 290 schools by the organisation, finds that across 32 secondary schools, 3,628 exclusions had been issued between September and mid-November 2020.
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