Review procedures

All permanent exclusions totalling more than 15 days in a term must be reviewed by the school’s Governing Board Discipline Committee within 15 school days of the Governing Board being notified.

The Discipline Committee must meet at the request of the parent to review fixed period exclusions of between 5 and 15 days in length. In these circumstances the meeting should take place within 50 school days.

When reviewing exclusions, the Discipline Committee will consider the evidence and listen to the views of the Headteacher and the parents, before deciding to either:

  • uphold the exclusion
    or
  • reinstate the pupil

If reinstatement cannot be directed because the exclusion has ended and the pupil has returned to school, the Committee will still consider whether the Headteacher’s decision to exclude was justified based on the evidence.

Parents can request that the Discipline Committee meet to consider shorter exclusions of 5 days or less, however the Committee cannot direct reinstatement under these circumstances.

Where a permanent exclusion decision is upheld by the Discipline Committee, parents can then request that the decision not to reinstate their child in school is reviewed by an Independent Review Panel.