A report by the education select committee said too many children are being excluded, ending up in alternative provision, which they describe as a "forgotten part of the education system".
The report and also criticises the practice of "hidden exclusions", where children are internally isolated, or informally excluded.
The committee said there is a "lack of moral accountability" on the part of many schools and no incentive to, or deterrent to not, retain pupils who could be classed as difficult or challenging.
The report makes a series of recommendations, which it wants to act as a "Bill of Rights" for pupils and parents, in order to make schools more accountable for excluded children. It calls on government and Ofsted to introduce a measure to incentivise schools to be more inclusive and for schools to publish more information about their permanent and fixed-term exclusion rates.
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