This work examines in detail the legal processes involved in challenging permanent school exclusion. The findings reveal serious deficiencies in the appeal system, including a failure to deal fairly with excluded children.
Contents:
1.Introduction 2.Education and Redress of Grievance 3.Disciplines in Schools: Social Theory and Law 4.Exclusion in Practice: The Social Context to School Exclusion 5.School Exclusion: The Legal Framework 6.The Governing Body's (Discipline Committee's) Reinstatement Meeting 7.The Exclusion Appeal Panels 8.Bringing Appeals: Access to the Arrangements 9.Exclusion Appeal Hearings 10.Conclusion