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Other schools could learn about teaching the language from the Hackney primary, inspectors say

Free resource proves widely successful with more than 2,000 schools across the UK signing up

Hackney Education is hosting an online event on October 7, for parents and carers to show how families can work together.

Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy reporter Published: 2:10 PM May 14, 2021    Hackney school exclusions have decreased in Hackney while home-schooling has increased. - Credit: � Royalty-Free/CORBIS School exclusions in Hackney have plummeted over the past year while the number of families opting to home-educate their children has jumped, according to new data. The disproportionate representation of children from Black and Traveller ethnic backgrounds in the figures paints a “damning” picture, according to Cllr Sophie Conway, chair of the children and young people’s scrutiny commission. ...

“I know we will be joined by many local authorities up and down the country, and the concern is, where are those children.” She added that the situation had also been exacerbated by “central policy developments” including the opening up of free schools, which have a provision of places which “does not necessarily relate itself directly to what local authorities [are] providing”. Falling primary school rolls are far from a Hackney-specific issue. As London house prices continue to rise and birth rates fall, it poses a threat to schools whose government funding is directly linked ...