London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has revealed plans to to work with schools, pupil referral units (PRU) and local authority safeguarding teams to reduce the number of children excluded from school in a bid to protect them from involvement in violent crime.
The VRU will work in partnership with schools, PRUs and local authority safeguarding leads to co-create an “inclusion checklist” laying out plans to support teachers working with pupils at risk of exclusion.
The charter is expected to include measures for teachers such as setting up meetings with parents and carers of children at risk of exclusion; expanding their knowledge of a child's triggers which may lead to behavioural issues and advice around activities to improve behaviour.
