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Savannah Meacham

Calls for suspension as a last resort in schools

Youth avocates are calling for student suspensions to be a last resort in school. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Suspension should be used as a last resort in schools with disengagement from the education system leading to further criminal behaviour, experts claim.

Laws introduced to Queensland parliament last month are looking to overhaul the disciplinary system used in schools and the way children are home-schooled.

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