I see school exclusion figures have gone down. It's a mixed bag. Permanent exclusions have fallen, but fixed-term exclusions have gone up. Both the government and education experts say the figures prove that an earlier and time-limited intervention can have a positive effect on behaviour, leading to a reduction in the number of permanent exclusions from school. Can we say behaviour is improving then? In 2005, the government published Learning Behaviour: The Report of the Practitioners' Group on School Behaviour and Discipline, chaired by...