‘Draconian’ school policies unfairly impact ethnic minority children, MPs told

She said: “The closure of ESN schools in the 1980s directly led to a rapid expansion in the use of school exclusions, and we began to see higher numbers incarcerated in prisons, the expansion of the use of set and tiering in education whereby certain groups of children, increasing numbers, are being denied the opportunity to sit exams at certain levels and then denied the opportunity to progress in educational settings, including going to university.