The Children's Services Scrutiny Committee is reviewing school exclusions. They want to find out why schools in East Sussex seem to choose exclusion more often than schools in other areas.
The review board will look at the breakdown of permanent and fixed term exclusions for each school in East Sussex. They will consider the reasons for the exclusions and look at data to compare East Sussex with other areas.
They want to find out:
- if behaviour is actually deteriorating over time, or if schools are ‘too quick' to exclude
- what proportion of exclusions are because of serious behavioural problems such as violence, carrying weapons or drugs
- if there are specific factors affecting primary school exclusions
- why children with Special Education Needs (SEN) have a higher risk of being excluded in East Sussex compared to other areas
- how effective exclusions are at improving behaviour in East Sussex
- if there are any alternatives to exclusion that might be more effective.
Review board members
Your comments
We would like to hear from you if you have any comments on the issues that the review is looking at. Please contact the Scrutiny team (below).
Reporting
The review board will produce a report outlining its findings and recommendations, and this will be considered at Children's Services Scrutiny Committee on 11 June 2012.
A progress report showing how the recommendations from the review have been put into action will be presented to the Children's Services Scrutiny Committee at a later date.
Enquiries
For further information, please contact the Scrutiny team.
East Sussex County Council