Saturday, 23 September 2017

Half of pupils expelled from school have mental health issue, study finds

a report by Sally Weale, education correspondent, in the Guardian of 20 July 2017

IPPR thinktank says permanently excluded children in England face significant disadvantage because of ‘broken system’

Hands raised in a classroom
Only one in a hundred permanently excluded pupils will go on to get five good GCSEs, the study found. Photograph: FangXiaNuo/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Read the Guardian’s report here

The IPPR’s press release heralding the interim report adds ‘burningly unjust system’ to the title above.

I spent quite a while looking for the interim report of July and/or the final report due in September and found neither. The information I did find horrified me quite enough!


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