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It can work in the other direction too. A good school operating with an optimal PAN risks being forced by a local authority to widen it so that they have to accept children being permanently excluded from nearby schools. Those exclusions are very often required because of the failure of the expelling school in properly handling difficult children. A good local school is then forced to take these troubled children on. In that case, what should be happening is that the local authority, Ofsted and DfE should challenge the school that is getting rid of its difficult children, not dumping them up the road because they are not strong enough to deal with the issues themselves.