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Teachers today 'are frightened'

More than 1,500 children aged four and under were suspended from schools in England in the past year, figures show.

Nick Gibb, shadow minister of state for schools, and Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, discussed the difficulties with disciplining very young children.

Mr Brookes said every time a teacher restrains a child they are putting their job on the line.

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