Headteachers do enough to safeguard excluded pupils, says school leaders’ union
Introducing a statutory duty on headteachers when sending an excluded pupil home is ill-advised, the National Headteachers Association said today following an appeal in the House of Lords.
Conservative peer Lord Lupton today encouraged the government to introduce a higher duty of care on headteachers when excluding children under the age of 16 from their schools.
This follows reports of London school children being excluded as a result of anti-social behaviour.
Lord Lupton said the government should revise regulations so headteachers are required to release excluded pupils to a parent, guardian or approved carer.
It was stressed that if there is no responsible adult to take children home following an exclusion, children will be left wandering the streets.
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