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Ministers moved yesterday to scrap so-called sin bins for disruptive pupils and replace them with specialist centres run by private companies, charities and academies, in an admission that the policy has failed. Pupils will be removed from schools in larger numbers and at an earlier age in an attempt to prevent them being excluded later on, under the plans set out in a white paper yesterday.

Schools should appoint a member of staff to look after each pupil with disabilities or special educational needs, under new government guidelines aimed at stamping out bullying issued today.

Many children with learning difficulties are not getting the help they require.

A ground-breaking project which has had extraordinary success in helping hundreds of dyslexic children and others struggling to read and write at primary school is poised for a major expansion across Britain.

Funding for the education of children with special needs, has 'increased markedly' since Labour came to power, the schools minister Jim Knight said.

The party's policy commission on special needs in education wants to see an end to the government's policy of including children with special needs in mainstream schools, and the number of special school places restored.

Schools Minister Andrew Adonis joins Kate Griggs, founder of the charity Xtraordinary People, to launch 'No to Failure', an exciting new project that aims to ensure children with dyslexia get the support they need at school.

A girl with special needs has been off school for a year, because every Redbridge school which caters for her disabilities is full.

1 in 3 primary staff reports special needs pupils having to wait a year for statements