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Preventing School Exclusions: Lessons from the Front Line
Education and learning
School exclusions are a social justice issue, disproportionately affecting vulnerable pupils and limiting their life chances.
Our Pinball Kids report (2020) revealed that wider societal factors, combined with direct and indirect consequences of policymaking, had severed relationships at all levels within the education system. This “perfect storm” was behind the rise and persistence of exclusions.
To address this, in 2021, we embarked on a three-year journey alongside three English local authorities with the aims of:
- improving multi-agency working
- reducing exclusions
- making local education systems more inclusive.
This report presents our process, what we learned about the “active ingredients” needed to facilitate deeper collaborative approaches – both from their presence and in some cases their absence – and the signs of change we have seen as courageous local leaders have worked together to tackle the complex issue of school exclusions.
Download the Preventing School Exclusions: Lessons from the Front Line (4.3MB).
Preventing school exclusions
Our research in school exclusions brought together three localities across England – East Sussex, Oldham and Worcestershire – to facilitate greater multiagency collaboration to make local education systems more inclusive and reduce preventable exclusions.
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