We appreciate the challenges that schools now face in terms of managing behaviour and exclusions. We are able to support your school both with drafting a suite of Behaviour Policies including policies on the unreasonable use of force; searching and confiscation; and exclusions.
We appreciate the complexities of managing an exclusion correctly and following procedure. We advise day to day on the process and can support you to ensure that all factors are correctly taken on board, including SEND. Our team can help you to conduct investigations and ensure that no unlawful exclusions take place. We can advise your school at the stage where the Head Teacher is making a decision to exclude and/or looking at other options such as a managed move. We can also advise Governing Bodies on reviewing an exclusion and draft exclusion letters.
Furthermore, our team of education specialists can support your school with independent review panels. As you will be aware under the Guidance, an independent review panel may now refer matters back for reconsideration to the Governing Body. We can equally support your school at this stage. Behavioural sanctions frequently lead to complaints and/or involve more complex safeguarding issues. We can advise you strategically on managing these incidents, viewing the bigger picture, to achieve an effective resolution.
Behaviour and exclusions package
The Department for Education’s statistics regularly highlight that schools across the sector are seeing an increase in behaviours leading to suspensions and exclusions. It is essential that your MAT‘s internal procedures comply with statutory requirements and the new DfE guidance on suspensions and permanent exclusions.
Our comprehensive behaviour and exclusions package provides a fixed price package to support your MAT to effectively manage behavioural incidents, particularly where that leads to a permanent exclusion.
The package includes key policies and precedent letters:
- Behaviour and Discipline Policy
- Suspensions and Exclusions Policy
- Searching, Screening and Confiscation Policy
- Use of Restricted Practices Policy
- Anti Bullying Policy
- PEX letter 1 – Confirming Permanent Exclusion
- PEX letter 2 – Invitation to parents to Governing Body Committee meeting
- PEX letter 3 – Outcome letter of Governing Body Committee (Decline to Reinstate)
- PEX letter 4 – Outcome letter of Governing Body Committee (Reinstatement)
- PEX letter 5 – Acknowledgement of request for IRP
- PEX letter 6 – Invitation to IRP hearing
- PEX letter 7 – IRP outcome letter (Upheld)
- PEX letter 8 – Reconsideration notice to parent/carer
- PEX letter 9 – Outcome reconvened Governing Body Committee (reinstated)
- PEX letter 10 – Outcome reconvened Governing Body Committee (upheld PEX)