CYP Now - London VRU forms partnership to tackle school exclusions

London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has revealed plans to to work with schools, pupil referral units (PRU) and local authority safeguarding teams to reduce the number of children excluded from school in a bid to protect them from involvement in violent crime.

Children excluded from school are more likely to carry a knife, research cited by London's VRU shows. Picture: AdobeStock/Mihail

The VRU will work in partnership with schools, PRUs and local authority safeguarding leads to co-create an “inclusion checklist” laying out plans to support teachers working with pupils at risk of exclusion.

The charter is expected to include measures for teachers such as setting up meetings with parents and carers of children at risk of exclusion; expanding their knowledge of a child's triggers which may lead to behavioural issues and advice around activities to improve behaviour.

As part of the plans, the VRU also held its first London Education Summit on November 30, which brought together young people, professionals working with children, parents and carers to develop an agreement for a London partnership “that works towards ensuring education provision is available for a wide range of complex needs” in a bid to reduce exclusions.

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