Excluded school children ‘should still receive same tutoring’
Children who are excluded from school still have the right to a proper education, according to the National Association for Primary Education (Nape).
Schools have a duty to ensure that excluded children get the tuition, rather than seeing exclusion as a means of getting rid of troublesome students, the association advised.
John Coe, chairman of Nape [comma] said: "They [schools] must ensure, that appropriate education is offered to that child, even though they can't go to that school.
"I would regard that pupil excluded from my school as still being one of my pupils for whom I have a professional duty to provide."
The announcement by Nape comes after the Department for Education suggested that hundreds of students who are excluded are to become part of a scheme to improve their education. The initiative is set to be introduced in around 300 secondary schools nationally.
According to data from the association, only a small proportion of children are excluded from primary schools but work must be done to prevent this just as in higher levels of education.
