Education
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Education and Jobs
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Education
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1
About the Recipe
A school can suspend you for a fixed time, or exclude you permanently. You have rights, and free help is available.
Ingredients
Free advice on exclusions: Coram Child Law Advice, ACE Education, IPSEA, and your local Information, Advice and Support Service (IASS). You do not have to work this out alone.
Preparation
School exclusions: know your rights
→ Suspension: up to 45 school days in a school year. For the first 5 school days the school must set and mark your work. From day 6, suitable full-time education must be arranged.
→ Permanent exclusion: the local council must arrange full-time education from day 6.
→ A school cannot exclude you because of a disability or a need it cannot meet.
Challenging it
The school must tell your parent or carer why, and how to challenge it.
→ Suspension of more than 5 days: your parent or carer can ask the governing board to overturn it.
→ Permanent exclusion: there is a governors' review meeting within 15 school days, then a right to ask for an independent review.
→ If disability discrimination is involved, there are time limits (6 months to make a claim). Get advice early.
This page is general information, not legal advice.