Their call comes as a parliamentary answer revealed two local education authorities are not providing full-time education for all their permanently excluded pupils.
The National Governors' Council welcomed Clarke's proposals to share previously excluded pupils between schools but said it was more appropriate to teach some outside of the mainstream. The National Union of Teachers said education authorities must meet their responsibility to provide special schools and units for children with emotional and behavioural problems.
A spokesman for the Department for Education and Skills said: "Dedicated advisers are working with the minority of LEAs that need more assistance to ensure that every excluded child is in some form of full-time education."
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