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RSA response to the Timpson Review of School Exclusion

Blog

10 May 2019

Laura Partridge Claudia Devlin

Our education team on promising recommendations and unanswered questions.
Is pressure to achieve exam results contributing to school exclusions? Yes, new RSA data indicates

Blog

11 Mar 2019

Laura Partridge

Our research found a spike in admissions to Pupil Referral Units in the autumn term of Year 11, the final term before a student's exam results count towards a school's performance.
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01 Mar 2019

Laura Partridge

Tackling the recent rise in formal school exclusions needs to be accompanied by measures to address in-school and hidden exclusion.
A perfect storm: how forces conspire to let down the nation’s most vulnerable children

Blog

17 Sep 2018

Laura Partridge

Laura Partridge shares insights from a recent roundtable on the five (or six) key forces conspiring to let our most vulnerable children down.
Top 5 things we’ve learnt about school exclusions this week

Blog

24 Jul 2018

Laura Partridge

New Department for Education data on school exclusions, released last week, shows a sharp rise in exclusions in the academic year 2016/17, with a 15% increase in permanent exclusions compared with 2015/16. What else can we learn from the data when we dig behind the headline figures? Here are our top five findings…
Pinball Kids: working together to reduce school exclusions

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02 May 2018

Laura Partridge Alison Critchley

The joint response from RSA and RSA Academies to the DfE's call for evidence on school exclusions, which closes this Sunday, 6 May 2018, at 5pm. In it we argue that whilst an examination of issues of inclusion and exclusion is timely, by focusing on specific groups that are over-represented in the exclusions statistics, there is a risk of missing the wider systemic issues which are driving the rise in exclusions.