Knife crime: Excluded pupils 'sucked into criminality'
The letter to Mrs May - signed by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and eight police and crime commissioners from England and Wales - said tackling the issue was their top priority, but added there were limits to what they could do.
It calls for the system of off-rolling, which sees pupils disappear from school registers without having been formally excluded, to be banned. "This cannot be right and schools must have the necessary resources to deliver good interventions and support to those at risk of exclusion."The letter highlighted that in two of the country's knife crime hot spots, London and the West Midlands, permanent exclusions rose by 62% and 40% respectively since 2013-14."It cannot be right that so many of those who have committed offences have been excluded from school or were outside of mainstream education.
"Some parents had even been asked to keep their children at home because schools said they could not meet their needs," she said.A Freedom of Information request by the union revealed how at least 760 youth centres had closed in England since 2012 - leading to the loss of 4,500 youth work jobs.The government says every England local authority has been given more money for every pupil
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