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Pupil Exclusions

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children under the age of (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years were temporarily excluded from state schools in England and Wales for (i) attacking another pupil or teacher, (ii) having drunk alcohol at or before school or having alcohol with them and (iii) carrying an offensive weapon in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority area. (241270)

The requested information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Information on the number of episodes of fixed period exclusion broken down by reason for each local authority is available as additional information to SFR 14/2008: “Permanent and Fixed Period Exclusions from Schools in England 2006/07” and can be found at:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000793/index.shtml

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children between the ages of four and 11 years have been (a) suspended and (b) suspended more than once from school in (i) the Ribble Valley, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England in 2008. (243269)

[holding answer 18 December 2008]: The information requested is shown in the following table for the latest period available.

Primary, secondary and special schools1,2,3 pupils aged four to 11 receiving fixed period exclusions4

2006/07

Number of pupils with one episode of fixed period exclusion

As a percentage of the school population5

Number of pupils with two or more episodes of fixed period exclusion

As a percentage of the school population6

Ribble Valley

44

0.45

23

0.24

Lancashire

623

0.61

380

0.37

England

29,413

0.66

18,686

0.42

1 Includes middle schools as deemed.

2 Includes CTCs and academies.

3 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools, excludes general hospital schools.

4 Pupils aged as at 31 August 2006.

5 The number of pupils with a fixed period exclusions expressed as a percentage of the headcount of pupils in January 2007, excluding dual registrations.

6 The number of pupils with two or more fixed period exclusions expressed as a percentage of the headcount of pupils in January 2007, excluding dual registrations.

Source:

School Census