News

At the beginning of the year, every GDL student is greeted with the usual whirlwind of information; lectures, seminars, introductory talks, mooting, pro bono, you name it! In spite of the chaos, I managed to...

Exclusion driven by genetic discrimination?

17 Feb 2016

By Natasha Isaac. The Times recently reported on the story of 11-year-old Colman Chadham who was excluded from Jordan Middle School, California because the school believed, incorrectly, that he was at risk of developing cystic...

Four disabled children excluded by Birmingham Primary School.

01 Feb 2016

Exclusion Law, General News

By Charles McCombe Nonsuch Primary School, in the Woodgate Valley area of Birmingham, has received both local and national attention after expelling four children with disabilities, the youngest of whom is four years old. The...

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 most support are met at the school by an appropriate...

Meet our reps – Josh Hepple

14 Dec 2015

I heard about the School Exclusion Project last year during my Law studies and many of my friends were representatives on the project. I was impressed hearing about the autonomy given to the reps and...

Spending Review – Put your money where your mouth is!

04 Dec 2015

By Phoebe Whitlock, Student Representative at The School Exclusion Project. Last Wednesday’s Spending Review has provided the clearest indication yet of the new Government’s approach to education policy. The headline is this: the Conservatives have...

Edward Timpson’s address to CDC

12 Nov 2015

By Natasha Isaac and Mark Greaves In a speech to the CDC on 11th November, Edward Timpson, the Children and Families Minister, re-stated his three reasons for the SEND reforms which were introduced last year....

More illegal exclusions at Academy Schools

12 Nov 2015

By David Wilson and Mark Greaves. In a new blow to the government’s education policy, academies were accused yesterday in an article for Sky News of a widespread pattern of illegal exclusions of pupils with Special...

Nicky Morgan’s Education Policy Speech

03 Nov 2015

By Natasha Isaac, Awareness Director at The School Exclusion Project. In her speech yesterday to the centre-right think tank the Policy Exchange, Nicky Morgan outlined a new regime of formal assessments for 7 year olds....

Kids Company – who’s thinking of the kids?

05 Aug 2015

By Alice Bacon & Mark Greaves Amidst controversy at Kids Company, our concern is that insufficient attention is being given to the way in which children and young people will be impacted if the charity...

Gove admits link between exclusion and criminality

15 Jul 2015

Exclusion Rep Blog, Our Cases

By Alice Bacon, Chief Director of the School Exclusion Project and pupil barrister at 3PB from Autumn 2015. Michael Gove, appearing before the Justice Committee on 15 July 2015, finally vocalised the connection between young...

Mixed messages, poor procedures and unprofessionalism

15 Jul 2015

By Brooke Lyne Before I begin, I am pleased to say, that this case had a happy ending. The school officially withdrew the exclusion, the pupil was allowed to return to school and he has...

The detrimental effect exclusion has on children from Black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds.

13 Apr 2015

Guest post by Communities Empowerment Network.

SEP shortlisted for Law Works Pro Bono Award!

04 Mar 2015

Exclusion Rep Blog, Our Cases

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the 2015 Law Works and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Award for “Best Contribution by a Team of Students”. We thank all our brilliant student representatives at...

Radio 4: The Strange Case of the Salted Snack

20 Feb 2015

General News, Our Cases

One of the School Exclusion Project’s Directors, Jodie Drummond, represented the parents of Riley, a 6-year-old boy who was excluded from school last year because of mini cheddars in his lunchbox. In this week’s Radio 4 Law in...

Exclusion: Re-writing the narrative.

16 Feb 2015

“A 15 year old. History of behaviour problems. An incident with a blade.” The above tagline would cause most of us to make similar assumptions. I know that when I received this case I expected...

Media Trends in School Exclusions

12 Feb 2015

Media coverage of schools exclusions can directly and significantly contribute to the actions of individual schools and the formation of public opinion surrounding exclusions. Less quantifiably, but no less importantly, it appears to inform policy...

Update from the Department of Education

11 Feb 2015

Exclusion Law

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 5 January 2015 and 1 February 2015. This means that...

Review: Episode 1 – BBC’s “Kicked Out Of School”

28 Jan 2015

Episode 1 of the BBC’s new documentary, “Excluded: Kicked out of School” introduces viewers to the Bridge AP Academy, as “a school, but not like any you can think of”; it is a “place for...

Who is failing SEN students – schools or the Government?

11 Jan 2015