The National Association of Headteachers has written to the government taskforce on behaviour to demand that heads be given more freedom to fix exclusion periods at their discretion.
It also wants heads to have the power to extend exclusions if parents refuse to attend a meeting with the school.
But the National Children's Bureau said that giving headteachers more freedom to exclude unruly pupils would only serve to "pass the buck to other schools or pupil referral units rather than attempt to tackle the real problems these children may be facing".
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