CYP Now - Education News: Hard-to-place pupils - Schools must join localpartnerships

Schools should be forced to join local partnerships that share out hard-to-place pupils, the Government's behaviour taskforce has said.

The group has warned that rogue schools are undermining ministers' plansfor all secondary schools to work together on behaviour.

The Learning Behaviour report, published last week, recommends that theDepartment for Education and Skills requires all secondary schools,including academies and foundation schools, to be part of a localpartnership and that "this should cease to be a voluntary option by2008".

"If we want all secondary schools to work together on behaviour and toshare hard-to-place pupils and want all pupils in the area to be thejoint responsibility of the partnership, it is vital that all schools inan area should be members of the partnership," states the report.

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