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Angry reaction to plan to ban school exclusion appeals

A national report – headed by Northampton Academy's chairman of governors and calling for a ban on pupils excluded from the Government's flagship schools being able to appeal – has been criticised by education figures.
Richard Tice, who is in charge of the county's first privately sponsored state school, said children expelled from academies because of unruly behaviour should lose the right to appeal against their exclusions.

The proposal on restoring discipline in failing schools, part of a package of radical educational reforms, was put together by the independent think-tank Reform, as part of a study on the academies scheme.

But union leaders have warned that the move would allow Labour's flagship schools to remove pupils without being held accountable.

Gordon White, the county secretary for the National Union of Teachers, said: "If academies exclude pupils, someone has to pick up the tab to maintain the child's compulsory education.

"The Government has created these academies as a great drive forward to raise standards, but academies are excluding far more pupils than mainstream schools.


"These academies have been set up in deprived areas, where issues such as exclusion and behaviour are expected to arise.
"It sounds like justification for removing kids out of their system because they can't deal with them, which isolates youngsters instead of dealing with the issue."His comments were supported by Terry Pearson, the chairman of the Northamptonshire Association of Governing Bodies.

Mr Pearson said: "It's appalling. If you take away the appeals process, it's effectively allowing any school to throw out whoever they want with no redress. It's exclusion not inclusion."

The Chronicle & Echo revealed last year that county taxpayers had spent nearly £150,000 putting permanently excluded pupils from Northampton Academy back into state education.

Northamptonshire County Council, which is responsible for education, paid out the money from its schools budget, to help 32 expelled pupils secure a place at surrounding secondary schools between 2004 and 2006, because of a funding loophole.

According to the local authority, it costs about £4,500 a year to educate a child. Council-run schools which exclude pupils must provide funding to pay for the youngster to attend an alternative school or referral unit.

Academies are under no obligation to do this, leaving taxpayers to pick up the bill.lei.chan@northantsnews.co.uk< /a