Education Inclusion Partners (EIPs)
The Education Inclusion Team is comprised of three Education Inclusion Partners (EIPs) who cover clusters of the borough organised into North, East, and West.
The Education Inclusion Team has multi-agency and multi-disciplinary links with dedicated officers from across core services. This includes Health, Social Care, the Youth Offending Service, and the Youth at Risk Matrix. The team can offer a range of clinical and non-clinical expertise.
EIPs help schools and parents keep children in school to ensure best outcomes for their learning. EIPs help to identify causes of disaffection/disillusionment with the school process. An EIP also helps to enable children, parents and teachers to have constructive relationships to help a child succeed.
Exclusions
Headteachers may permanently exclude a child due to serious breaches of a schools’ behaviour policy or if the child’s presence in the school could seriously harm the education/welfare of other pupils in school.
A permanent exclusion means that your child can no longer attend school and his/her name will be removed from the school roll. Schools cannot ask parents to keep their children at home for a cooling off period, or because the school cannot meet their needs. This would be an unofficial exclusion and is unlawful, even if the parent agrees to it. If a headteacher does not want the child in school for a disciplinary reason, they must go through a formal process.
Suspensions
A suspension means that your child is not allowed to attend school for a specified period, with a date given for his/her return to school.
Education inclusion partners help parents and students navigate their way through this complex process and try to find an acceptable agreement for all parties.