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Ed Balls Annouces Early Support to Keep Pupils on Track
Dated: 22/10/2008
Ed Balls Annouces Early Support to Keep Pupils on Track
Ed Balls has welcomed a range of innovative, voluntary, private and public sector pilots for teaching excluded pupils and intervening early to prevent the need for exclusion.
The 12 pilots from around the country will test new and innovative ways of teaching those who have been excluded, those at risk of exclusion or those who cannot be taught in mainstream schools for other reasons.
Projects will be run by voluntary organisations including Kids Company, Nacro, Rathbone, The Prince’s Trust and Barnardo’s and private sector groups such as Unoco, and will include an academy project, a city farm, a work-based learning centre and a project using Army Cadet Force training.
The pilots follow plans for new powers announced in May this year that will ensure that underperforming alternative provision settings can be challenged to improve or replaced with new ones such as those being announced today. Ministers are determined to ensure that excluded youngsters get back on track and do not end up in crime or unemployment. The new plans, backed with £26.5m, will see a radical transformation of alternative provision as it currently exists.
The announcement comes as a new survey of 1,400 teachers commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families gives a positive insight into pupil behaviour on the frontline. The main findings show that:
- the vast majority (94%) of teachers rate behaviour as acceptable or better in their school;
- over half of teachers (52%) think behaviour has improved or remained broadly the same over the last five years; and
- a strong majority (83%) think they are well equipped to tackle poor behaviour.
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