New Clause 12 - Abolition of Independent Appeals Panels
Education Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Mrs Angela Watkinson (Shadow Minister, Education; Upminster, Conservative)
Would it surprise the hon. Gentleman to hear that one of my secondary schools, which is in a nice, cosy, leafy, middle-class area and is high-achieving, has a very good record of accepting excluded pupils from the less advantaged area where the least popular school in the constituency is situated? It does very well with them. Often, an excluded pupil does much better with a change of surroundings, circumstances and friends. That is sometimes the answer.