Commentary Part 7: Discipline, Behaviour and Exclusion Section 108: Removal of excluded pupils to designated premises
516.This section amends section 16 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to allow police to remove excluded pupils from a public place to a designated place. At the moment police have the power to remove pupils who should be at school (“truants”) from a public place to either their school or premises designated by the local education authority and notified to the police. The effect of this amendment would be to allow police to remove an excluded pupil from a public place to premises designated by the local education authority and notified to the police (for example the offices of the local education authority).
517.The section also amends Schedule 4 to the Police Reform Act 2002 so as to enable community support officers to exercise the new power. The Police and Justice Act 2006 adds to Schedule 4 to the Police Reform Act 2002 the paragraph 4C being amended.