At 30 September 2005 there were 44,700 children who had been looked after continuously for at least 20 months by English local authorities. 34,800 of these children were of school age and of these 310 (or 1 per cent.) received a permanent exclusion.
Information on the number of these children who become prostitutes or go into prison is not collected centrally.
The available information is given in the table.
Maintained secondary schools, pupils of black ethnic origin 2, 3 Permanent exclusions1 Fixed period exclusions Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total 2000-01 490 150 640 ” ” ” 2001-024 370 140 510 ” ” ” 2002-034 370 110 470 ” ” ” 2003-044 430 120 550 9,780 4,140 13,920 2004-054 390 110 490 11,380 4,530 15,920 1 The number of permanent exclusions are known to have been under-reported by schools in each year since 2000-01. The numbers shown here for permanent exclusions are as reported by schools. The data are unconfirmed and known to be incomplete. 2 Includes pupils aged 5 and over. 3 Includes pupils of Black Caribbean, Black African and Black Other ethnic origin. 4 A new ethnic coding framework was introduced in the 2002 and 2003 Census'. The new ethnic coding frameworks included a new category for pupils of Mixed ethnic origin. In 2001-02 and 2002-03 both the old and the new ethnic codesets were used. This could have caused some disruption to timeseries data. .. Not available, 2003-04 is the first full year for which fixed period exclusions data are available Note: Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and totals as shown. Source: Schools’ Census and Termly Exclusions Survey