Department For Education
Details
This guidance details the legal responsibilities for those who suspend (fixed period exclusion) and permanently exclude pupils from educational settings, including:
- headteachers
- local authorities
- governing bodies
- academy trusts
- independent review panel members
- independent review panel clerks
- special educational needs experts
It governs the exclusion of pupils from:
- local-authority-maintained schools
- academies and free schools
- pupil referral units
Statutory guidance sets out what schools and local authorities must do to comply with the law.
Further guidance and resources
- Behaviour in Schools
- Governance handbook and competency framework
- Alternative provision - Statutory guidance for local authorities, headteachers and governing bodies of settings providing alternative provision
- Education for children with health needs who cannot attend schoo
- Mental health and behaviour in schools
- Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) code of practice: 0 to 25 years
- Working together to improve school attendance
- Keeping children safe in education
- Children missing education
- Working together to safeguard children
- Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children
- Adverse childhood experiences training and resources (funded by the Home Office)
- Designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children