PRUs prevent criminality – so let’s look beyond the tropes
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PRUs
  • Mar 20, 2022
Life in a PRU: The lockdown impact is becoming clear
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PRUs Pupil Referral Units Coronavirus Lockdown Behaviour Disruption
  • Apr 28, 2021
Drug gangs prey on excluded truants, warns Ofsted chief
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Amanda Spielman Pupil exclusions Pupil Referral Units Vulnerable PRUs Alternative provision
  • Nov 29, 2020
Have we forgotten about girls in PRUs?
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PRUs Alternative provision
  • Oct 4, 2020
Ex-PRU leader’s mentoring project wins prestigious innovation award
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PRUs Awards Mentoring
  • Sep 14, 2020
BBC Three to work with young people on sitcom about pupil referral units
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Television PRUs Referral unit
  • Aug 5, 2020
Teachers to face rise in poor behaviour, MPs warned
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PRUs Behaviour Discipline Pupil exclusions Coronavirus
  • Jul 23, 2020
Large increase in pupils with care plans in PRUs
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Special needs SEND EHCPs PRUs Alternative provision
  • Jul 2, 2020
PRU pupils to get mental health support thanks to grant
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PRUs Mental health Pupil support Grants
  • May 27, 2020
Salvation at last for Jake, excluded from school at five
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Pupil exclusions Special needs Behaviour Pupil support PRUs
  • Mar 19, 2020
Coronavirus: Sick cleaners and caretakers force closure
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Coronavirus PRUs School closures Support staff
  • Mar 18, 2020
My two weeks inside a pupil referral unit for excluded children
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PRUs Pupil exclusions
  • Feb 16, 2020
If you put all the badly behaved kids together, what do you expect?
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Behaviour Pupil exclusions PRUs Alternative provision
  • Feb 6, 2020
Behaviour: How to work with alternative provision
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Alternative provision PRUs Behaviour
  • Jan 30, 2020
Managed moves vs permanent exclusions: Do outcomes differ?
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  • Dec 17, 2019
Numbers in low grade PRUs 'underestimated'
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Alternative provision PRUs
  • Nov 15, 2019
Educating the excluded
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  • Nov 9, 2019
The PRU, the boarding school and a unique experiment
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PRUs Alternative provision
  • Oct 21, 2019
Northern school leaders to be placed in PRUs
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PRUs Alternative provision Leaders Inclusion
  • Oct 21, 2019
Take part in Voice's survey on Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provision
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Survey PRUs Alternative provision
  • Jul 26, 2019
AP and PRUs: The real picture
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Alternative provision PRUs
  • Jul 4, 2019
Take part in Voice's survey on Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provision
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Survey PRUs Alternative provision
  • Jul 3, 2019
Cuts jeopardise leading alternative provision
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Alternative provision Funding PRUs
  • Jun 10, 2019
Inside pupil referral unit where ‘unteachable’ kids as young as five often ask teachers for a hug
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PRUs Alternative provision Primary Pupil exclusions
  • Jun 5, 2019
A reminder for teachers: you are changing lives
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PRUs Teachers Teaching Behaviour
  • Apr 25, 2019
PRUs shouldn't just be part of the flowchart
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PRUs Behaviour Alternative provision Funding Mainstream
  • Apr 15, 2019
The time when my PRU was asked to take on a nursery pupil…
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PRUs
  • Apr 10, 2019
The Guardian view on school exclusions: the wrong answer | Editorial
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  • Apr 1, 2019
Concerns raised about primary exclusions
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  • Apr 1, 2019
Rising primary school exclusions deeply concerning, says Labour
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Alternative provision PRUs Primary Pupil numbers
  • Apr 1, 2019
Number of primary school children at referral units soars
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  • Apr 1, 2019
Ofsted: We don’t know enough about managed moves
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  • Mar 14, 2019
Ofsted: Stronger partnerships needed to tackle knife crime
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  • Mar 12, 2019
Weaker pupils removed before exams
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Not all is lost when children are excluded, for some it’s just the beginning
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  • Mar 8, 2019
PRUs are not "sin bins" – but exclusions do need to be looked at
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PRUs Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 6, 2019
How failed transitions mean children get 'stuck' in PRUs
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PRUs Transitions Intervention
  • Feb 14, 2019
How poor housing is harming our pupils
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Disadvantaged pupils Housing Mental health Behaviour PRUs
  • Feb 12, 2019
Dithering ministers must tackle knife crime | Rachel Sylvester
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Knife crime Pupil exclusions Safeguarding PRUs
  • Feb 5, 2019
MP: Switch PRU funding to mainstream schools to cut risk of violence
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PRUs Funding Alternative provision Early intervention Pupil exclusions
  • Jan 29, 2019
New funding will alleviate financial pressures on pupil referral units and high needs schools
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Funding PRUs High needs funding
  • Jan 25, 2019
Leading PRU to launch academy chain
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PRUs Academies MATs
  • Jan 23, 2019
More children sent to referral units where gang leaders can target them
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Amanda Spielman Ofsted Referral unit PRUs
  • Jan 12, 2019
Working in a pupil-referral unit changed my caree
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PRUs Pupil support Pupil exclusions
  • Jan 7, 2019
Voice welcomes Ofsted report for highlighting ‘scandal’ of missing special needs support
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Ofsted Off-rolling Pupil exclusions Accountability Funding Special needs Disability SEND Teacher shortages PRUs Alternative provision
  • Dec 4, 2018
PRUs in the North 'could face closure' after cutbacks
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PRUs Cuts
  • Nov 16, 2018
Small Yorkshire school helping some of most needy pupils faces axe
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Life chances Funding Cuts Pupil exclusions Alternative provision PRUs Pupil performance Pupil support
  • Nov 13, 2018
Schools causing concern
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PRUs Intervention School performance RSCs
  • Nov 8, 2018
Excluded pupils 'at risk of grooming by gangs'
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Pupil exclusions Gangs Knife crime Grooming PRUs School places
  • Oct 30, 2018
Barnardo's: Excluded children at risk of knife crime
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  • Oct 30, 2018
Children who are expelled from school are at risk of being drawn into 'county lines' gangs, Barnardo's warns
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Gangs Pupil exclusions PRUs School places Behaviour Grooming
  • Oct 30, 2018
Doomed Schools Company Trust paid £4k for ‘disturbing’ workshop from Oscar Pistorius’ aunt
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MATs Academies PRUs
  • Oct 12, 2018
‘They’ll blame the housing crisis on PRUs soon!’
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PRUs
  • Oct 6, 2018
Drug gangs 'target excluded pupils'
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Pupil exclusions Drugs Gangs PRUs
  • Sep 30, 2018
Pupils aged 5 sent to referral unit where gang stabbed boy
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PRUs Pupil exclusions Behaviour Safety Primary
  • Aug 30, 2018
Dozens of five-year-old pupils excluded for bad behaviour
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Primary Pupil exclusions PRUs Behaviour
  • Aug 29, 2018
Weak pupils expelled as heads ‘game’ exam tables
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Pupil exclusions GCSEs Exam results School performance League tables PRUs Off-rolling
  • Aug 28, 2018
Thousands of pupils cast aside as schools climb GCSE league tables
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GCSEs League tables Pupil exclusions School performance PRUs Off-rolling
  • Aug 28, 2018
GCSE results for pupil excluded from mainstream school
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GCSE Pupil exclusions PRUs
  • Aug 24, 2018
More exclusions are definitely NOT the answer
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Pupil exclusions Mainstream PRUs Trainee teachers Disruption Off-rolling League tables Accountability
  • Jul 31, 2018
Is this the real exclusions ‘scandal’ – leaving too many kids in mainstream?
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Mainstream Pupil exclusions Accountability Alternative provision PRUs
  • Jul 27, 2018
Schools Company: Doomed trust to end the year ‘£8 million in debt’
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PRUs MATs Academies Closures Finances
  • Jul 13, 2018
Schools Company: ‘Huge concern’ over pupil referral units run by failed trust
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PRUs Academies MATs Closures Standards Funding
  • Jul 13, 2018
Schools Company: DfE denies claims it had ‘positive’ relationship with troubled trust
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DfE MATs PRUs Academies Closures
  • Jul 13, 2018
Schools Company: Board minutes reveal extent of failure at doomed academy trust
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Academies MATs Finances School building PRUs Pupil exclusions
  • Jul 13, 2018
Schools excluding difficult pupils to keep grades up
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Pupil exclusions Behaviour School performance Ofsted PRUs Off-rolling
  • Jun 25, 2018
Private alternative providers get worse Ofsteds than council provision, and 4 other findings
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Alternative provision Ofsted ratings Inspections PRUs State funded
  • May 30, 2018
How to teach good behaviour
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Behaviour PRUs Pupil exclusions
  • May 7, 2018
Alternative provision: Seven things we learned from today's education select committee hearing
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Alternative provision Education Select Committee Access Off-rolling PRUs
  • May 1, 2018
PRUs too stretched to tackle permanent exclusions, warns top Ofsted inspector
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PRUs Pupil exclusions Expulsion
  • May 1, 2018
PRUs closing and 'bursting at the seams' amid rising exclusion rates
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PRUs Funding Pupil exclusions Pupil numbers Alternative provision
  • Apr 17, 2018
Dorset pupil referral units are turning away excluded pupils
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PRUs Pupil exclusions Funding
  • Apr 17, 2018
Written answer re Pupil Referral Units applying to convert to academy status - January 2013 to January 2018
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PRUs Academies
  • Mar 8, 2018
Alternative provision for pupils outside school system examined
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Alternative provision PRUs Behaviour Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 6, 2018
Progress 8 ‘is forcing schools to ask for more PRU places’
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PRUs Progress 8 Alternative provision Accountability Vulnerable Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 6, 2018
Alternative provision for pupils outside school system examined
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Alternative provision Pupil exclusions PRUs
  • Mar 2, 2018
MPs to question heads over provision for excluded pupils
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Headteachers Alternative provision Pupil exclusions Pupil numbers Education Committee PRUs
  • Mar 2, 2018
Schools causing concern
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PRUs RSCs Underperforming schools
  • Feb 9, 2018
Private firms profiting from illegal alternative provision, Ofsted warns
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Alternative provision Regulation Illegal schools Ofsted PRUs Pupil exclusions Behaviour
  • Feb 5, 2018
Social justice and the needs of disadvantaged pupils examined
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Social justice Disadvantaged pupils Education Committee Alternative provision PRUs
  • Feb 2, 2018
An opportunity missed on restraint and restrictive intervention
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Intervention Behaviour Discipline PRUs Alternative provision
  • Jan 29, 2018
Naughty toddlers as young as two are being expelled from nurseries and sent to ‘sin bins’ for bad behaviour
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Early years Nurseries Behaviour PRUs Alternative provision Pupil exclusions
  • Jan 15, 2018
Nurseries expel toddlers to sin bin
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PRUs Discipline Nursery schools
  • Jan 14, 2018
Greening: Part-time primary PRUs 'dramatically' reduce secondary exclusions
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TES Primary PRUs Pupil exclusions Secondary
  • Oct 25, 2017
A school where ‘nobody’s judging you’
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Guardian PRUs Bullying Pupil exclusions Alternative provision Secondary schools
  • Oct 17, 2017
Who are the pupils in alternative provision?
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Education Datalab Alternative provision PRUs School places Home schooling Disadvantaged pupils SEN EHCP Ethnicity Pupil exclusions
  • Oct 11, 2017
Teacher who said gay people 'have a disease' barred from teaching
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TES Alternative provision PSHE Secondary schools Homophobia PRUs Misconduct
  • Oct 10, 2017
Train teachers on exclusion to spread best practice, think tank urges
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CYPN IPPR Pupil exclusions PRUs Teacher training Behaviour Alternative provision
  • Oct 10, 2017
Education Committee launches inquiry into Alternative Provision
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UK Parliament Alternative provision PRUs Behaviour Pupil exclusions Disadvantaged pupils Social justice
  • Sep 20, 2017
MPs to investigate alternative provision
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TES Alternative provision Behaviour DfE Education Select Committee PRUs Pupil exclusions
  • Sep 20, 2017
MPs to investigate PRUs in alternative provision inquiry
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Schools Week Alternative provision Education Committee PRUs Behaviour Student support Discipline Pupil performance
  • Sep 20, 2017
Education Committee launches inquiry into Alternative Provision
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FE News Education Committee Alternative provision PRUs Pupil exclusions Behaviour Disadvantaged pupils
  • Sep 20, 2017
Pregnant pupils are being moved to PRUs as cuts close services
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Schools Week Pregnancy Teachers PRUs Student support ATL CAHMS Secondary schools
  • May 12, 2017
Improving happiness levels for socially excluded young people
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Huffington Post Disadvantaged students Mental health Wellbeing Social exclusion PRUs Academic performance GCSEs
  • Jan 30, 2017