CYP Now - School exclusions

Following the recent white paper on improving educational provision for excluded pupils in England, Sue Learner looks at the existing policies and procedures currently in place for school exclusions across the UK.

ENGLAND

Permanent exclusion should normally be a last resort and exclusions can only be made by a school's headteacher or the teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit. All schools must have a policy setting out serious breaches.

Parents, the governing body and the local authority must all be notified within one day of the child being excluded. Parents can then appeal to the governing body, which must inform them of its decision within one school day. Parents then have 15 days to appeal to the local independent appeal panel.

Local authorities have to provide full-time education from the sixth day of a permanent exclusion. Schools are responsible for setting and marking work until then. SCOTLAND

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