The Observer point to two legal challenges to the level of evidence needed by schools to exclude a pupil:
Headteachers will find it much more difficult to exclude children they suspect of serious offences such as drug dealing, carrying a knife or violent bullying if a major legal challenge is successful in the High Court.
Lawyers say that children accused of the most serious wrongdoing are not being given a ‘fair trial’ and that government regulations are incompatible with the European Human Rights Act. If they win, a new regime would see schools facing the same stringent legal standards as those used in criminal courts.
This follows a case brought in 2006 which challenged exclusion based on possession of illegal drugs.
(via the NUT)
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