Exclusion practice and disproportionality were put under national review.
The Timpson Review examined how school exclusion is used and why some groups of pupils are more likely to be excluded.
This matters because exclusion often sits at the intersection of SEND, poverty, race, trauma, behaviour policy and school accountability.
Awareverse sees exclusion as a signal to ask what was missed before the child was removed.
A common mistake is treating exclusion as the start of the story rather than the visible end of a long pattern.
Who had power here, who was left outside, and what would have changed if the human being was seen first?
These deep dives open out from this part of the timeline.