NASUWT comment on Oftsed exclusion report

24 June 2009

Commenting on reports of Ofsted's findings on exclusions in primary schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers union in the UK, said:

"Ofsted's comments on primary school exclusions are risible.

"The Government has given schools a range of sanctions to maintain good order and discipline, including exclusion, and exhorts schools to use them. When they do they are then criticised by Ofsted.

"Ofsted should be focusing on whether there is good order and discipline in a school, not on the sanctions used to secure it. This yet again demonstrates that Ofsted's claim that it focuses on outcomes not process is false.

"Ofsted implies that exclusion is inappropriate for pupils of primary school age. If behaviour is inappropriate, is impacting adversely on the educational progress of the majority of pupils and other strategies have failed, then the age of the pupil is immaterial.

"This report is likely lead to more schools being reluctant to exclude and the majority of pupils and their teachers having to face the consequences in terms of educational progress, health and well being.”

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