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What actually happens if a child becomes permanetly excluded from school?

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WhenTheDragonsCame · 16/03/2016 14:02

DD1 (14) was suspended yesterday for the second time yesterday for refusing to attend detention on Friday. In a meeting this morning she was told that if she truants class again (the reason for the detention) she will have to stay after school that evening for 45. If she refuses she will get another fixed term exclusion. After 6 occurances of this she will possibly be permanently excluded.

I have just had a call to say that she truanted a lesson today and if she refuses to go to detention it will result in another exclusion, meaning she would be half way to permanently being excluded.

I have looked at the government website but wanted an idea of what actually would happen in this instance.

Until she moved to the new school in september she had issues but nothing like this. The school have said that if she didn't pick the friends she has they do not believe that she would be behaving like this. They also think that she is very immature and doesn't (possibly isn't able to) think of the concequences of her actions.

Thank you.

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WhenTheDragonsCame · 16/03/2016 15:09

Possibly.

She has been told what will happen but maybe if she actually saw it for herself it would have more effect.

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titchy · 16/03/2016 14:51

Can you ask the school to arrange a visit for her and you to the nearest PRU? Might scare her enough to pull her socks off. Might backfire of course....

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WhenTheDragonsCame · 16/03/2016 14:38

She changed schools because we moved to a different city. Her behaviour wasn't perfect at the old school but nothing like this.

Her school is a state all girls school. She is in year 9 and just picked her gcse options. If she is excluded i will not appeal so i don't need any information about that thank you.

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WhenTheDragonsCame · 16/03/2016 14:32

It is a fairly small school, about 600 students, so i think it will be very difficult to keep them apart. They weren't in the same lesson today but they just decide to go off together. The school say when the girls are confronted DD1's friend gets quite mouthy but DD1 just goes quiet.

She is grounded and doesn't have internet access for the foreseeable future. Not sure what else i can do. The two nearest schools are either catholic or in special measures with the threat of closure.

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Bluebonnie · 16/03/2016 14:24

Is this a Local Authority maintained school? if so, and a permanent exclusion does take place, the LA should find this pupil a place at another of its schools, and swap another child into the previous school.

Did you really want to know about appeals, PRUs etc?

It sounds as if there may have been a previous managed move - is that right?
We could do with some more information, to give sensible advice and info.

insan1tyscartching · 16/03/2016 14:17

What seems to happen here is a child is moved to another local school sometimes following a spell at a pupil referral unit. A girl in dd's class began y7 with her was excluded and went to the other secondary local to us, was excluded again, went to a pupil referral unit then to a third secondary school where she was excluded again. She started back at dd's school a year after she had been excluded and now two months later she is very part time and on the verge of being excluded again. I'd expect that she will be placed in the independent BESD school next unless they try the local state special school which is nowadays a dumping ground for the difficult children.
If your dd is following her friends could the school move her to a different form?In dd's school they sometimes move children to one of the opposite houses which means they rarely come in contact with the people the school want them away from.