Schools in Southwark will not disfellowship students for bad behavior, council documents say.
Secondary schools in the south London borough will agree to keep disruptive children unless they are endangering the safety of another child.
Southwark Council is set to be the first local authority in the UK to get schools to sign such an agreement.
A 2020 council report found that Southwark had an above average rate of exclusion.
It was also noted that academies would exclude more children than other schools.
A separate report, also by the council, found that black students in Southwark were 1.5 times more likely to be expelled than their white counterparts.
In England, the 2019-20 persistent exclusion rate was 0.06.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), councilors hope the borough will be the first in England not to exclude pupils in the coming years.
Teachers are encouraged to try to understand the reason for bad behavior using a “trauma-informed” response and are told not to take misbehavior “at face value”.
Southwark Schools have not disfellowshiped any students for the Fall 2021 term.
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