The School Exclusion Project Exclusion Law Updates

The BBC Interviews the School Exclusion Project

28 Jan 2017

As part of Outclassed: The Kids Excluded From School, BBC Radio 4: File on Four has interviewed the School Exclusion Project and one of the families...

Robbed of their rights: Do School Exclusion Hearings Breach Human Rights?

14 Dec 2016

By Anirudh Mandagere. Any decisions taken by schools, including the decision to exclude, must be lawful, rational, fair and proportionate. The legal procedure for exclusion...

School exclusions and Children’s Rights

24 Nov 2016

By Naomi Webber. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international treaty, signed and ratified by the UK Government....

Lord Lupton – higher duty of care on HTs following exclusion?

15 Dec 2015

By Natasha Isaac “Should there be a higher duty of care on head teachers when excluding children from school to ensure children who require the...

Update from the Department of Education

11 Feb 2015

Newsflash! We have received clarification from the Department for Education that the September 2012 exclusion guidance will apply for exclusions that have taken place between...

Advice on the new Exclusion Guidance – part 2

07 Jan 2015

The test to be applied by Headteachers when considering the exclusion of a pupil has recently changed under the new School Exclusion Guidance. The changes will apply...

Advice on the New Exclusion Guidance – From January 2015

17 Dec 2014

Sprung upon us, without a whiff of consultation, comes new statutory school exclusion guidance. It will replace the current guidance for exclusions. It will be for all exclusions...

Exclusion Law Updates