{"id":638255,"date":"2025-12-17T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638255\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:10:18","slug":"rise-in-north-yorkshire-primary-school-exclusions-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638255\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in North Yorkshire primary school exclusions &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, Crane told the meeting: &#8220;I appreciate it&#8217;s the national trend and not just in North Yorkshire, but it really is a shocking indictment on parts of society that we&#8217;re facing this problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the executive approved lowering the age limit at the council&#8217;s three RPUs \u2014 the Rubicon Centre, in Selby, the Sunbeck Centre, in Northallerton, and the Craven Pupil Referral Service, in Skipton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PRUs provide tailored support for excluded children and support them to return to mainstream education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A placement at the PRU costs \u00a319,810 a year per child, with the authority planning to create 30 new places at a cost of more than \u00a3594,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Janet Sanderson, executive member for children and families, told the meeting: &#8220;I&#8217;m really disappointed in the number of primary excluded children of that age that are coming in \u2014 for goodness sake, what are we doing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve totally taken on board that it&#8217;s a national problem, and I know that the government is trying to address it, but you can&#8217;t go on like this without actually highlighting the problem we face.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Crane told the meeting: &#8220;I appreciate it&#8217;s the national trend and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-638255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115735312748171259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}