Review of Pupil Referral Units, Primary Behaviour Support Service and Pupil Retention Grant in East Sussex

The consultation

From September 2007, we became responsible for ensuring that all permanently excluded pupils are provided with full-time education from day six of their exclusion. This was a considerable reduction from the previous 16-day time limit.

We are almost entirely dependent upon Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) to educate excluded pupils who are not attending schools. This consultation looked at plans to expand the provision on offer to include more than just PRUs. However, PRU provision was planned to remain central in both ensuring permanently excluded pupils are offered their educational entitlement and in supporting schools to reduce permanent exclusions.

This consultation looked at your views on the current delivery of Primary Behaviour Support and the allocation and movement of Pupil Retention Grant in secondary schools.

For more on the background to this consultation, you can download ‘Background information to the Pupil Referral Unit consultation' below.

This consultation closed on Friday 19 October 2007.

The final report

The report below includes an outline of the responses from headteachers, parents and pupils, and recommendations for follow-up actions.

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