Education ; ;School exclusion on reinstatement child taught outside classroom but within school reinstatement not requiring full integration into classroom ;R v Governors of B School, Ex parte W: QBD (Richards J): ;3 November 2000 ;The applicant, W, a child had been excluded from school. On the applicants return to school, teaching staff refused to teach W. Arrangements were made by the principal, supported by the governors, for W to be taught by tutors individually, sitting outside the principals office, within the school, but outside the classroom. ;Ws parents sought judicial review of the governors decision not to fully integrate W into the classroom, contending that reinstatement pursuant to s.67 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 meant the child should be fully reintegrated into the classroom. ;Richard McManus QC and Deborah Hay (instructed by Fisher Meredith, Stockwell) for the applicant; Nigel Giffin (instructed by Winckworth Sherwood) for the governors. ;Held, dismissing the application, that for the purposes of s.67 of the 1998 Act reinstatement was not to be given an elaborate meaning; that what was intended to be achieved was the removal of exclusion; that it did not follow that everything had to be put back exactly as it was before the exclusion; that what mattered was that the regime applied to the pupil after the date for reinstatement was a regime that did not involve the continuing exclusion of the pupil from the school; that it did not have to be an identical regime to that which prevailed before the pupil was excluded; that full reintegration might be inappropriate after a long absence; and that, accordingly, there had been no failure to reinstate W. ; ; ;
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