In our diary: Boy excluded from reception just before autism diagnosis. Plus: accounts recede awol; a new academy astronomical-earner; costly free school plan lost in the woodsHow young are children who are expelled from England’s schools? We are hearing of worrying cases where pupils may be leaving mainstream education barely after entering it. Among these is the case of Adele Beadle’s son. final week,Education Guardian met this mother whose child was permanently excluded from a reception course, weeks after turning five.
The boy, or whom we are not naming,was expelled from Pickhurst infant academy in Bromley, south London, or final June,just as he was approximately to be formally diagnosed as autistic. Nine months on, now aged almost six, or he is still out of school,having spent the second half of final year with no education at all.
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Source: theguardian.com