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East London council praised over ‘inclusive education work’

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

| CYP Now

Barking and Dagenham Council’s work to help schools promote inclusivity is being used as an example of good practice in a toolkit on preventing exclusions.

Teaching unions warn over impact of behaviour crackdown on children with SEND

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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

| CYP Now

Plans to crack down on behaviour management in schools could have a detrimental impact on children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), responses to a government consultation suggest.

Increased support for SEND pupils needed to improve home education, MPs say

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Monday, July 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Greater support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and tougher measures to tackle off-rolling have been recommended by MPs to improve home education in England.

London Mayor ploughs £4.7m into tackling exclusions and violence in schools

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

| CYP Now

Schools in areas of London blighted by youth violence are to be handed £4.7m to prevent children from being excluded and to better protect them after hometime.

DfE faces legal action over pupil isolation booths

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Thursday, April 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Two families have threatened the Department for Education with legal action over what they claim is unclear guidance on the use of pupil isolation - after their children with SEN were held for long periods.

Calls for register of home-educated children as figures rocket

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Monday, February 4, 2019

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for England is calling for a compulsory register to keep a closer watch over home education, after she discovered levels have doubled in five years.

Government considers 'inclusivity incentives' for schools to tackle exclusions

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Thursday, October 18, 2018

| CYP Now

The government is to look at incentivising schools to be more inclusive, in response to a critical report from MPs into the increasing number of children being excluded and placed in alternative provision.

Gypsy children suffering racism in schools, MPs told

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

| CYP Now

Racism in school is a major factor in the low attendance rates of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children, experts have told MPs.

Architects of SEND system criticise government progress

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

| CYP Now

Two disability campaigners who conducted reviews of special educational needs (SEN) provision have criticised the progress of government efforts to improve the system.

Schools found to be excluding increasing number of autistic children

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Thursday, June 7, 2018

| CYP Now

The number of children with autism being excluded has risen dramatically in recent years, government data has shown, with campaigners claiming they are being "shut out" of schools.

High needs fund 'not enough' to meet rising SEND demand, warns heads union

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Friday, May 4, 2018

| CYP Now

Funding for pupils with complex needs is insufficient to meet a dramatic rise in the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), head teachers have warned.

Ofsted pledges action to stop schools 'off-rolling' challenging pupils

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

| CYP Now

Ofsted has promised to get tough on the practice of "off-rolling" where schools encourage challenging pupils to leave without officially excluding them.

SEND cuts 'put children at greater risk of exclusion'

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

| CYP Now

Cuts to special education needs and disabilities (SEND) support in schools are worsening, leaving children at greater risk of being permanently excluded, a teaching union has warned.

Education Secretary pledges action to tackle school exclusion rates

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

| CYP Now

Education secretary Damien Hinds wants schools that are successfully dealing with challenging pupils to be central to efforts to tackle high exclusion rates across England.

Ofsted announces crackdown on school exclusion 'hot spots'

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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

| CYP Now

Ofsted is to write to more than 100 head teachers across eight exclusion "hot spots", to raise concerns about the high number of pupils being removed from schools in their area.

Inspectors criticise quality of SEND support in Medway

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

| CYP Now

Health, education and council chiefs in Medway have been criticised by inspectors for failing to work together to improve support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Longfield calls for action to tackle informal exclusions

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for England has pledged to push for action to address rising numbers of vulnerable children being informally excluded by schools.

Train teachers on exclusion to spread best practice, think-tank urges

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Monday, October 9, 2017

| CYP Now

The best teachers need to be encouraged to work in pupil referral units in order to give the most vulnerable children a good education and create new benchmarks for working with children at risk of exclusion, a think-tank has said.

Inspectors praise counselling support for SEND pupils in Cambridgeshire

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

| CYP Now

Efforts to support young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Cambridgeshire through counselling have been praised by inspectors, after the move contributed to a reduction in school exclusions.

Behaviour tsar calls for 'internal inclusion units' in schools

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Friday, March 24, 2017

| CYP Now

Government should fund schools to create internal inclusion units to offer targeted early specialist intervention for children with behavioural problems, a government adviser has said.

LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

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Friday, February 3, 2017

| CYP Now

Council leaders are calling for extra powers to stop academies refusing to take on "hard to place" children who have been excluded from another school.

Government to change law around term-time holidays

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Friday, May 13, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has announced it intends to change the law around parents taking their children out of school during term-time to go on holiday after the High Court backed a father who refused to pay a fine.

Schools to be responsible for excluded pupils' education

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Friday, March 18, 2016

| CYP Now

Local authorities will be stripped of their responsibility to commission alternative education provision for excluded pupils, under plans outlined by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

Child benefit to be docked if parents fail to pay truancy fines

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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Parents will have their child benefit payments docked if they fail to pay truancy fines Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Assaults drive big rise in primary school exclusions

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of primary school children being excluded from school has risen sharply with the increase put down to rising levels of violence and ‘persistent disruptive behaviour'.

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East London council praised over ‘inclusive education work’

Teaching unions warn over impact of behaviour crackdown on children with SEND

Increased support for SEND pupils needed to improve home education, MPs say

London Mayor ploughs £4.7m into tackling exclusions and violence in schools

DfE faces legal action over pupil isolation booths

Calls for register of home-educated children as figures rocket

Government considers 'inclusivity incentives' for schools to tackle exclusions

Gypsy children suffering racism in schools, MPs told

Architects of SEND system criticise government progress

Schools found to be excluding increasing number of autistic children

High needs fund 'not enough' to meet rising SEND demand, warns heads union

Ofsted pledges action to stop schools 'off-rolling' challenging pupils

SEND cuts 'put children at greater risk of exclusion'

Education Secretary pledges action to tackle school exclusion rates

Ofsted announces crackdown on school exclusion 'hot spots'

Inspectors criticise quality of SEND support in Medway

Longfield calls for action to tackle informal exclusions

Train teachers on exclusion to spread best practice, think-tank urges

Inspectors praise counselling support for SEND pupils in Cambridgeshire

Behaviour tsar calls for 'internal inclusion units' in schools

LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

Government to change law around term-time holidays

Schools to be responsible for excluded pupils' education

Child benefit to be docked if parents fail to pay truancy fines

Assaults drive big rise in primary school exclusions

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