Heads in charge of excluded pupils

The Bitish Government announced it is to start a new trial which will see headteachers decide where excluded pupils are taught.
Under the current system, when a child is permanently excluded, their parents take responsibility for them for the first five days after the exclusion.It is then up to the local authority to provide the youngster with full-time education.The quality of education for permanently excluded children is so poor that scarcely any achieve the minimum level of qualifications they need to succeed
So it is this responsibility that will now be handed to schools.
Around 300 secondary schools in England are due to take part in the three-year trial, in total around 3,000 youngsters who are at risk of being excluded will be covered.
In 2009/10, 5,020 secondary school pupils were permanently excluded, the Department for EducationSchools Minister Nick Gibb explained: “One of the key priority in our schools is improving behaviour of students so we support the head teachers who permanently exclude the students who are bullying other students but through this step we just need to ensure they do not abandon education  and  they continue to receive a good quality education, albeit in an alternative setting.”