Press Release

Exclusion figures

Thursday, July 10 2008

Commenting on the latest exclusion figures Christine Blower, Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said, "The latest exclusion figures confirm an uncomfortable fact.  Permanent exclusion figures in Academies are over double that of other secondary schools.

"No school wishes to exclude pupils but sometimes it is unfortunately necessary. What is unacceptable for the education service is that Academies should apparently receive tacit encouragement to exclude when at the same time the Government is quick to condemn other schools if they exclude at the same levels.

"It is unacceptable that in order to boost a highly controversial Government policy the Government should apparently condone from Academies what they condemn in their local family of neighbouring schools."