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Useful information:
This guide will help you understand your options if your child is excluded from school.
Special Education Needs (Child Law Advice)
Information on the duties of schools and local authorities to assess, identify and provide for a child’s special educational needs within school and what happens if the support being provided through Additional SEN Support is not enough?
Council for Disabled Children:
The handbook aims to empower disabled children and their families through a greater understanding of their rights and entitlements.
Exclusion from maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units in England.
Department of Education Statistics
Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2014 to 2015
A guide to exclusions statistics (updated July 2015)
ACE Education Advice and Training
Provide independent advice and information for parents on education issues in England.
Mapping the Exclusion Process
by Christy Kulz 2015
Develop your advocacy skills, share insights, legal developments and case submissions.