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Pupils: Discipline

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

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Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children between the ages of four and 11 years (a) suspended and (b) suspended more than once from school in (i) West Chelmsford constituency, (ii) Essex and (iii) England in 2008. (243970)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry

[holding answer 15 December 2008]: The information requested is shown in the table for the latest period available.

Primary, secondary and special schools1,2,3 pupils aged 4 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

West Chelmsford

53

0.57

45

0.48

Essex

816

0.68

558

0.47

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