Campaigners call for temporary ban on exclusions Fiona Simpson Thursday, May 6, 2021
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The time to end school exclusions is now
The mainstream media have been talking about children losing learning time - but some children were unfairly excluded before the pandemic
WITH EXISTING inequalities sharpened by the pandemic, a moratorium on school exclusions is the only way to protect already marginalised children and young people from the structural and institutional racism the government’s latest race report so strenuously denies.
A moratorium is the temporary prohibition of an activity, according to Google’s dictionary.
We are part of No More Exclusions (NME), a grassroots coalition movement campaigning for racial justice in education. Our latest report reveals why we urgently need a moratorium on school exclusions, now more than ever, before even more children and young people fall through the cracks.