Volunteers welcome Cameron's plans for excluded pupils

By Emilie Filou, Third Sector Online, 3 August 2007

Voluntary groups have welcomed David Cameron's proposal to use the expertise of third sector organisations to help schoolchildren with behavioural problems.

The Tory leader praised the record of the voluntary sector and attacked pupil referral units in a speech on classroom discipline at the Policy Exchange think tank this week. "It's time for the state sector to say that when it comes to these children, we're doing a bad job and...

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