The South London borough, Southwark, is the first to pledge to follow a no-exclusion policy in the UK [1]. Schools signing up for an inclusion charter pledge aim not to exclude other than in cases where other pupils are at risk of harm. A trauma-informed approach Southwark council are supporting Read more…
A recent news article shared the experience of a mother’s memory of her son’s exclusion when he was five years old and a visit to a Pupil Referral Unit [1]. What is a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)? PRUs are independent schools set up to provide an education for children who Read more…
Could the solution to the UK education systems longstanding problem of disproportionately high exclusion levels among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students, really be as simple as the title for this blog suggests? In this blog we take a closer look at the facts, stats and lived experiences documented Read more…
At one end of the school to prison pipeline is the student. A young person whose life has been turned upside down. At the other are the people making the laws for our education system: the elected government and its civil servants. So, in the latest in the school to prison pipeline series, Read more…