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LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

Friday, February 3, 2017

| CYP Now

Council leaders are calling for extra powers to stop academies refusing to take on "hard to place" children who have been excluded from another school.

Government to change law around term-time holidays

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Friday, May 13, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has announced it intends to change the law around parents taking their children out of school during term-time to go on holiday after the High Court backed a father who refused to pay a fine.

Schools to be responsible for excluded pupils' education

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Friday, March 18, 2016

| CYP Now

Local authorities will be stripped of their responsibility to commission alternative education provision for excluded pupils, under plans outlined by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

Child benefit to be docked if parents fail to pay truancy fines

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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Parents will have their child benefit payments docked if they fail to pay truancy fines Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Assaults drive big rise in primary school exclusions

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of primary school children being excluded from school has risen sharply with the increase put down to rising levels of violence and ‘persistent disruptive behaviour'.

Troubled Families programme delivers substantial savings

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

| CYP Now

The Troubled Families programme has delivered savings of more than double the amount spent on turning around the lives of families with complex problems, government figures suggest.

Charity slams academy exclusion practices

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Academies have been criticised for having an "alarmingly higher" rate of pupil exclusions than state schools and for failing to reinstate pupils on appeal.

Peer mentoring scheme extends to Manchester school

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Friday, February 6, 2015

| CYP Now

A youth volunteering programme that sees young people provide mentoring and support for school children has expanded into Manchester.

Ofsted blames poor classroom behaviour on 'casual' school leadership

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

| CYP Now

An acceptance of poor behaviour in the classroom by school leaders is having a detrimental impact on pupils' outcomes, Ofsted has warned.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Better pupil support cuts exclusions, study finds

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Friday, July 25, 2014

| CYP Now

Giving schools more responsibility for arranging support for pupils at risk of exclusion cuts the number of children permanently excluded, a study suggests.

Council data reveals extent of troubled families' problems

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Families involved in the government's Troubled Families initiative have an average of nine social problems when they enter the programme, latest research shows.

Councils increase number of troubled families turned around

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of troubled families helped to turn their lives around by an intensive government support programme has risen to nearly 53,000, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced.

School absence rates show significant fall

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is claiming victory for its tough love approach to tackling truancy, after latest figures show a drop in the overall and persistent absentee rates of pupils.

Pupil referral units 'damage' children's wellbeing

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Friday, May 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Pupil referral units (PRUs) in Wales are in need of urgent overhaul, according to a damning children's commissioner for Wales report that says many are failing to support children.

Persistent truanting continues to decline

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of children that persistently truant from English schools has continued to decline over the past year, latest figures show.

Autistic children face illegal exclusion from school

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Two in five children with autism were illegally excluded from school in a year, new research reveals.

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the government to give local authorities the power to tackle poorly performing academies and free schools.

Conservative conference: Call to extend payment-by-results to PRUs

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The government should consider introducing payment-by-results schemes in pupil referral units (PRUs), a Conservative MP has said.

Charity predicts increase in truancy due to raising of participation age

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Monday, September 2, 2013

| CYP Now

The rise in the education leaving age to 17, which has come into force this week, will cause the truancy rate to rocket according to Barnardo's.

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LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

Government to change law around term-time holidays

Schools to be responsible for excluded pupils' education

Child benefit to be docked if parents fail to pay truancy fines

Assaults drive big rise in primary school exclusions

Troubled Families programme delivers substantial savings

Charity slams academy exclusion practices

Peer mentoring scheme extends to Manchester school

Ofsted blames poor classroom behaviour on 'casual' school leadership

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Better pupil support cuts exclusions, study finds

Council data reveals extent of troubled families' problems

Councils increase number of troubled families turned around

School absence rates show significant fall

Pupil referral units 'damage' children's wellbeing

Persistent truanting continues to decline

Autistic children face illegal exclusion from school

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

Conservative conference: Call to extend payment-by-results to PRUs

Charity predicts increase in truancy due to raising of participation age

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