Posted on Tuesday 7th May 2019
Whose fault is it that more children are being excluded from schools?
Teachers, parents, politicians and seemingly everyone else with a passing interest in children’s long-term happiness have been arguing over this one for years but now a long-awaited review of exclusions from the former schools minister Edward Timpson is shedding some carefully filtered light on the question.
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