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Principals urge more support for schools with violent students

18:12 pm on 28 May 2021

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Principals are demanding the Ministry of Education do more to support schools who are forced to enrol violent pupils.

Currently, if a child is excluded or expelled from one school, the Ministry can force another to take them on.

But principals say that's a problem if there's no good support in place - and they have legal backing behind them.

Our reporter Tom Kitchin has more.