Read the preface of Professor Carl Parson's new book

Carl Parson's is a distinguished researcher and writer who has recently published 'Strategic Alternatives to Exclusion'

This original study shows that local authorities, working collaboratively with their schools and clusters, can dramatically reduce exclusions and make permanent exclusions unnecessary. And through research in three low excluding local authorities and five high excluding local authorities, it shows how this is done. The challenges and barriers are recognised but the way forward is clear.

The book fills the ground between school and national government, pointing to the responsibilities and powers that a supportive, challenging and conciliatory local authority has in respect of the education of all children.

Professor Carl Parsons is Head of the Department of Educational Research at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has researched school exclusions over a period of 15 years, taking a consistently cool and evidence based approach and a moral stance that school exclusion is a punitive device which creates social ills elsewhere.

read the preface here