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Letter: Young people disadvantaged

From Mr Peter J. Sandiford

Sir: It seems disturbingly likely that the "sweeping deregulation of grant maintained schools" ("Major orders blueprint for all schools to opt out", 4 September) will further disadvantage the education of young people looked after by local authorities. This is particularly true if, as the article suggests, plans are implemented to remove or modify the right of local education authorities to force grant maintained schools to take pupils who have been excluded from other schools.

Thanks to research such as Sonia Jackson's Education of Children in Care, we have known for years that becoming "looked after" brings a high risk of educational failure. Nevertheless, little ...

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