{"id":321009,"date":"2025-12-17T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:03:10","slug":"rise-in-north-yorkshire-primary-school-exclusions-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321009\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":321010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-321009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}