The alliance is expected to bow to pressure and ditch the controversialidea that schools and local education authorities should only usepunishment as a last resort. The new mission statement will instead openup the possibility of appropriate punishment being meted out at anearlier stage.
Simon Blake, acting manager of the alliance, said: "We are rewriting itto make sure there's no ambiguity. What we are saying is that punishmenton its own is not going to be effective, but that equally schools andothers need to have a system in place and sanctions may be part ofthat.
We have a whole range of different approaches that people are using andpunishment has to sit as part of that range."
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