The government’s regional directors should “adopt a priority focus on tackling and minimising exclusions”, council education bosses have said.
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has today published a policy paper setting out what they want from the education system.
They said the reforms in recent years have resulted in an “increasingly fragmented education system”, with councils’ role in education “partly eroded” while still having to meet statutory duties.
A “reshaped” system with strong links to the local area would help incentivise inclusive behaviours leading to a reduction in exclusions and greater access to school places for poorer children, ADCS said.
