(2) on how many occasions on average a permanently excluded pupil was given a fixed-period exclusion before permanent exclusion in each year for which figures are available.
The available information for 2006/07 and 2007/08 is shown in the table.
The table shows the average number of days that pupils spent out of their school following one or more fixed period exclusions prior to receiving a permanent exclusion from the same school. This does not imply that they missed education over the whole of this period, since the Education and Inspections Act 2006, which came into effect in September 2007, requires schools to provide full-time suitable education from the sixth day of any period of fixed period exclusion of six days or more.
2006/07 2007/08 Average number of fixed period exclusions received prior to permanent exclusion4 2.3 2.2 Average number of days of fixed period exclusion prior to permanent exclusion5 10.8 7.9 1 Includes middle schools as deemed. 2 Includes city technology colleges and academies (including all-through academies). 3 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. 4 The number of instances of fixed period exclusion of pupil enrolments who were subsequently permanently excluded by the same school, divided by the total number of pupil enrolments who were permanently excluded during the year. Figures are as reported by schools. 5 The total number of days of fixed period exclusion of pupil enrolments who were subsequently permanently excluded by the same school, divided by the total number of pupil enrolments who were permanently excluded during the year. Figures are as reported by schools. Source: School Census