exclusion from school

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organisations

Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
1C Aberdeen Studios
22 Highbury Grove
London N5 2DQ
Helpline: 0808 800 5793 (Mon-Fri 2-5pm)
Exclusion Helpline: 020 7704 9822
Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk
Provides independent advice to parents in England and Wales explaining their legal rights in relation to education, including exclusion from school. The centre's free exclusion helpline is a recorded service offering advice about exclusions. The centre also produces an information pack for parents whose child has been excluded from school.

Carers UK
Ruth Pitter House
20-25 Glasshouse Yard
London EC1A 4JT
CarersLine: 0808 808 7777 (Mon-Fri 10am-12pm, 2-4pm)
E-mail: info@ukcarers.org
Website: www.carersuk.org/Home
Provides free information and advice through the CarersLine and website on any aspect of caring to carers and young carers. The website also has details of specialist training, a forum for carers to air their opinions and share tips and you can subscribe to a regular newsletter.

Include
CfBT
60 Queens Road
Reading RG1 4BS
Tel: 0118 902 1000
Website: www.cfbt.com/include
A national charity which is part of the CfBT and is the single largest provider of services to excluded young people. Include runs a number of projects to help young people aged 14 to 16 to integrate more into their community, their peer group and education.

National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS)
99-105 Argyle Street
Birkenhead
Wirral CH41 6AD
Free helpline: 0800 616 101 (Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm)
Tel: 0151 649 8700
Email: help@nyas.net
Website: www.nyas.net
Provides independent information, advice, support and representation to any child or young person to ensure that their interests and feelings are taken into account when decisions are made about them.

Parentline Plus
Helpline: 0808 800 2222 (24 hours)
Textphone: 0800 783 6783
Tel: 020 7284 5500
E-mail: contact@parentlineplus.org.uk
Website: www.parentlineplus.org.uk
Offers support to anyone parenting or helping to raise children, from newborn babies to young adults. There are free telephone and email helplines, parenting courses and information leaflets. The website offers lots of advice, real-life stories and relevant news as well as a helpful A-Z of related topics.

The Prince's Trust
18 Park Square East
London NW1 4LH
Advice line: 0800 842 842 (free)
Tel: 020 7543 1234
Minicom. 0207 543 1374
Website: www.princes-trust.org.uk
Offers 14- to 30-year-olds opportunities and grants to develop confidence, learn new skills and get into work. The trust particularly targets young people who are long-term unemployed, in and leaving care, young offenders/ex-offenders and educational underachievers.

Voice for the Child in Care (VCC)
Unit 4
Pride Court
80-82 White Lion Street
London N1 9PF
Tel: 020 7833 5792
E-mail: info@vcc-uk.org
Website: www.vcc-uk.org
Provides independent confidential advocacy services to children in need, in care or leaving care. The charity's aim is to empower children and young people to resolve any problem they may have with their care by giving information, advice and support.

Who Cares? Trust
Kemp House
152-160 City Road
London EC1V 2NP
Tel: 020 7251 3117
E-mail: mailbox@thewhocarestrust.org.uk
Website: www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk
Offers support and information to the 60,000 children and young people who have left their own families and are living with foster families. Apart from producing Who Cares magazine for children in care, the charity runs a number of projects including Equal Chances Stage Three – Literacy, Attainment and Achievement, which has been concerned with improving the educational outcomes for children and young people in public care, and Employability Plus, a project designed to increase the further education, training and employment prospects of young people with learning disabilities who are in and preparing to leave the care system.

Young Minds
102-108 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 5SA
Parents' Information Service: 0800 018 2138 (Mon and Fri 10am-1pm, Tues, Weds and Thurs 1-4pm)
Tel: 020 7336 8445
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
The service provides information and professional advice to any adult concerned about the mental health or emotional well-being of a child or young person.

websites

Advice for Putting Your Case at an Exclusion Hearing
www.ace-ed.org.uk/FixedExclusion
Produced by the Advisoriy Centre for Education, these informative booklets advise how you should prepare and present your case against your child's exclusion from school. It includes separate pieces of advice for parents in England and Wales.

Barnardo's
www.barnardos.org.uk
The charity helps the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.

e-parents
www.e-parents.org
Information, advice and resources for parents from the National Family and Parenting Institute.

Exclusions
www.parentcentre.gov.uk
A brief article from the Department for Education and Skills explaining what to do if your child is excluded from school. It describes the types of exclusion, your child's rights to an education and the appeal process.

New Policy Institute
www.npi.org.uk
Independent political think tank whose interests are in all aspects of poverty and social exclusion as well as social inequality more widely, and in the performance of 'essential' services – from utilities and finance to education. Produces public-domain reports such as 'Second Chances: Exclusion from school and equality of opportunity'.

The National Teaching Advisory Service (NT&AS)
www.ntas.org.uk
The NT&AS is the only national organisation which meets the educational needs of looked-after children and children by providing a range of direct, practical, strategic, training and consultancy services to Local Education Authorities, health authorities and the independent child care sector. The website features useful case studies, information on relevant legislation and codes of practice and details of training courses.

Raising Kids
www.raisingkids.co.uk
An informative and entertaining site offering practical support, information, and friendship to everyone who's raising kids. Has a section featuring information, advice, articles and a chat forum on teenagers.

Teachernet – Exclusion
www.teachernet.gov.uk
Features information and guidance for teachers from the Department for Education and Skills on when and how exclusion should be implemented, and procedures for appeals against exclusion.

reading

	Alternatives to Exclusion from School by Pamela Munn, Gwynedd Lloyd and Mairi Ann Cullen (Paul Chapman Publishing, 2000) Aimed at teachers and school governors, this book considers ways to prevent children's behaviour from becoming so disruptive that they must be excluded from school. Get this book
	Not a Problem? Girls and school exclusion by Audrey Osler, Cathy Street, Marie Lall and Kerry Vincent (National Children's Bureau, 2002) This study, carried out by the New Policy Institute and the Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education, University of Leicester, examines girls' perceptions of school life and of the use of exclusion in its various forms, both official and unofficial. A summary is available to read at www.npi.org.uk/summ girls exclusion.htm Get this book
	Positive Alternatives to Exclusion by Paul Cooper, Mary Jane Drummond, Susan Hart, Jane Lovey and Colleen McLaughlin (Routledge Falmer, 2000) An action research project which looks at the question of what is being done by schools to reduce and avoid the social and formal exclusion of specific groups of pupils. Can be accessed at www.gtce.org.uk/pdfs/PASE.pdf. Get this book

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