Schools 'Exclude 10 Pupils a Day'

YEAR SUSPEND DEPARTMENT REAL LIKELY EXCLUSION BELIEVE PERIOD NUMBER REDUCE 82 GREAT SUPPORT PROGRAMME

   An average of 10 ___ a day were excluded ___ school in England last ___, according to the Department ___ Education and Skills ( DfES ). ___ than 624 pupils were ___ for violence towards teachers ___ students and 16,800 were ___ for cases of assault ___ the year.

   However, the ___ stressed that these figures, ___ were published last week, ___ be treated with caution ___ some local education authorities ___ submitted incomplete data. The ___ figures, it said, were ___ to be higher although ___ government still insisted annual ___ rates were falling.

   "We ___ that numbers of fixed ___ exclusions, as with the ___ of permanent exclusions, are ___ as our behaviour policies ___ now taking effect. The ___ schools that face the ___ challenges are receiving intensive ___ from the ‘behaviour improvement ___’, where there has been a decrease in fixed period exclusions of 11% from the previous year," said the DfES.

   In addition, 10,000 learning mentors are now helping individual pupils overcome behavioural problems in schools, and 17,000 children who are at risk of exclusion are receiving intensive support from more than 100 specialist behavioural education support teams.

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Have fun....and take care! 191 JUN-2006