On 16th March, the Government announced a programme of work to better understand how to improve the educational experiences and outcomes of all children with additional needs and challenges, so they are able to overcome barriers and realise their potential.
The School Exclusion review will help the Department for Education to understand how and why schools use exclusion, what drives the variation in exclusion rates for some groups - including those with Special Educational Needs. The review will also explore and identify effective practice, which can be shared.
As part of this review, the Department for Education have published a call for evidence. They are seeking views from parents, children, schools, local authorities and other organisations, to hear about their experiences, practice and evidence.
BPV would like to hear your experiences of school exclusions and inclusion. It would be good to be able to share and celebrate where there is good practice and we also need to know of where it’s not working so well.
We want to find out more about exclusion in the widest sense. This includes part time timetables, segregation, denied access to school trips as well as fixed term exclusions. A number of the factors that drive exclusions require policy change at Government level so it is really important that we use this opportunity to feed into the Government review. Your views will be used to inform the response to the Government’s review and shape local support for children and young people with SEND and their families.