The latest figures from the Department for Education and Skills revealalmost a quarter (24 per cent) of the appeals heard in 2005/06 weresuccessful, an increase of almost three per cent on the previousyear.
The Association of School and College Leaders' general secretary JohnDunford said the trend was "astonishing and worrying" and wasundermining head teachers' powers. "Heads must take into account what isright for the whole school and they are best placed to decide what is asuitable sanction," he said. "Heads deserve better support than this. Itis undermining schools' ability to discipline."
In more than half (56 per cent) of successful appeals, the excludedpupil was returned to the same school.
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