Alan Bates: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Deputy high court judge
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 11 Sept 2026
“permanent exclusion should be 'a tool of last resort' and that those considering whether to exclude a child should make a careful assessment of whether allowing the pupil to return to the school would seriously harm the welfare of the pupil or of others at the school”
Where Alan Bates has been quoted
- Autistic boy who took replica knife to school has exclusion quashed by high courttheguardian.com · 11 Sept 2026
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