Baines Law

The Tale of the Excluded Swansea Schoolboy

When a teaching establishment and the authorities turned against a 14 year old boy for a momentary indiscretion, it resulted in the boy's permanent exclusion from school. The headteacher's offensive analogy to that of a murderer and the refusal to accept the boy's fulsome and repeated apology reflect badly on the school, the governors and the local authority: YA v Independent Panel of Swansea City Council [2022] EWHC 408 (Admin)