A charity is urging Christians in the community to help those threatened with exclusion from school.
The Excel Project or XLP is organising an event with the Centre for Social Justice to look at the issue.
It's after a Princes Trust report found the cost of exclusion to society is twenty-two billion pounds over a generation.
It will discuss the negative effect of taking a child out of the school system.
Patrick Regan from XLP - who used to be a local church worker - tells Premier something needs to be done to avoid a culture of exclusion: