The former Education Welfare Officer in East Lancashire has tabled a question to the Cabinet Minister urging her to include children as a stakeholder group by allowing a pupil representative on the task force to be chaired by Sir Alan Steer.
The Department for Education and Science is encouraging stakeholders such as a teaching unit to take part but Mr Pope's warns that there are no children or their representatives on the body.
He said that under the UN Convention of Rights of the Child, children have a right to be consulted on issues that affect them.
He said: "If the government think that there is a problem with the behaviour and discipline of some children in the schools, it might be a good idea to actually talk to some children.
"Only talking to the same old academics and teaching unions will not resolve the problem.
"The task force is a welcome initiative but it must include children who, after all, are in my view the most important stake holders in our education system.
"Listening to children isn't only the right thing to do, it might actually pay dividends here."
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