§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the latest available figures for the number of pupils excluded from school(a) permanently and (b) temporarily.
§ Mr. ForthThe Department has been monitoring permanent exclusions at maintained schools over a two-year period starting with summer term 1990 under the national exclusions reporting system—(NERS). Some preliminary findings from NERS were incorporated in our recently published discussion paper on exclusions. Some 3,000 pupils were permanently excluded in the first year of the NERS exercise. Information on temporary exclusions is not collected by the Department.
§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many local education authorities have schools with conditional re-entry agreements as a means of readmitting excluded pupils to schools; and what assessment he has made of their effectiveness.