Violent pupils expelled after stabbing classmates and assaulting staff are being allowed back to school against the wishes of their head teachers.
Teaching unions have revealed a catalogue of examples where a head’s decision to exclude a pupil permanently for appalling behaviour has been overturned by governors and appeal panels.
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In October, three sixth-formers from a school in the South East took knives on a school trip, which resulted in a pupil being stabbed in the chest. One successfully appealed against exclusion and is back at school.
In June, governors overturned the decision of a secondary school head in the Midlands who had expelled a teenage pupil for setting up a website calling on classmates to kill a teacher.
