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Scottish Schools Fail To Exclude Persistently Disruptive Pupils (3 January 2012)

Date: 03/01/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Scottish Schools Fail To Exclude Persistently Disruptive Pupils

Discipline problems in some Scottish schools are going unchecked as their head teachers are refusing to exclude disruptive pupils, a teaching association has highlighted. The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association has welcomed the reduction in exclusions but has warned that exclusions are necessary in some schools. Over the past academic year, there were 26,844 exclusions, the equivalent of an 11 per cent reduction. A head teachers’ union has claimed that its members were committed to solving complex problems with the aid of the resources available to them. Ann Ballinger, the SSTA’s general secretary, has praised head teachers for utilising alternative support methods for “troubled” youngsters but has added that senior managers who fail to exclude the small number pupils whose indiscipline proves detrimental to others’ learning and who succeed in spreading fear and alarm within the school community need to take action.

The School Leaders Scotland union, a representative body for head teachers, claimed that some head teachers were opposed to the exclusion of pupils, as the process of doing so was both complex and costly. Mike Russell, the Education Secretary, has told of how he accepts head teachers’ reasons for not wishing to exclude pupils but added that all head teachers knew that there were occasions in which exclusions were necessary.

Duncan Lewis’ childcare law solicitors can provide legal support to parents whose children have been excluded from school. Duncan Lewis’ childcare law department comprises experienced solicitors, trainee solicitors and paralegals, all of whom can work to protect children’s right to an education.

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