§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the number of temporary exclusions from schools in each year since 1979. [24026]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThis information is not available centrally.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the number of permanent school exclusions for each year since 1979. [24024]
§ Mr. SquireThe Department is this year collecting, for the first time, systematic data on permanent exclusions from all maintained schools, through the annual schools26W census return issued in January. Comprehensive data on permanent exclusions in the school year 1994–95 will thus be available in the autumn.
Prior to this, information was collected on an ad hoc basis. Data on permanent exclusions from maintained schools in England were assembled by the Department over a two year period, starting with the summer term 1990, under the national exclusions reporting system. Some 2,910 permanent exclusions were reported in the first year and 3,833 in the second.
A survey conducted by Christ Church college, Canterbury on behalf of the Department and published in July last year, showed that there were 10,624 permanent exclusions in the school year 1993–94 in the 101 local education authorities in England which responded to the researchers' questionnaire out of a total of 109 LEAs. It also showed there were 4,550 permanent exclusions in the autumn term 1994 in 101 LEAs.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many children in care of the local authority have been excluded from school in each year since 1979. [24025]
§ Mr. SquireThis information is not available centrally.