Department for Education written question – answered on 27 September 2023.
Lord Storey
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Education)
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total number of pupils (1) excluded, and (2) permanently excluded, from (a) primary, and (b) secondary, schools in each of the past three years.
Baroness Barran
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
Information on permanent exclusions and suspensions is published in the annual Permanent Exclusions and Suspensions in England national statistics, with the latest available data being from summer term 2021/22: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions in state-funded primary and state-funded secondary schools in England 2018/19 to 2021/22
2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | ||
State-funded primary | Permanent exclusions | 1,067 | 739 | 392 | 758 |
Permanent exclusions (rate) | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | |
Suspensions | 66,463 | 47,261 | 46,203 | 66,203 | |
Suspension (rate) | 1.41 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 1.42 | |
Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension | 29,771 | 23,726 | 24,418 | 31,437 | |
Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension (rate) | 0.63 | 0.50 | 0.52 | 0.68 | |
State-funded secondary | Permanent exclusions | 6,753 | 4,269 | 3,492 | 5,658 |
Permanent exclusions (rate) | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.10 | 0.16 | |
Suspensions | 357,715 | 253,307 | 296,224 | 498,120 | |
Suspension (rate) | 10.75 | 7.43 | 8.48 | 13.96 | |
Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension | 164,214 | 125,816 | 153,006 | 214,650 | |
Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension (rate) | 4.93 | 3.69 | 4.38 | 6.02 | |
(1) For 2019/20 and 2020/21, while suspensions and permanent exclusions were possible throughout the academic year, pandemic restrictions will have had an impact on the numbers presented and caution should be taken when comparing across years. 2018/19 has been included to give the pre-pandemic year figures.
Source: School Census. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/27c1ed1a-73aa-4909-acfd-08dbb395de42
(2) Exclusion rates are the number of permanent exclusions/suspensions/pupil enrolments with one or more suspensions as a percentage of the number of sole and dual main registered pupils on roll on January school census day.
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