§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what information she has collated about the linkage between exclusion and the number of criminal offences conunitted by under-18s. [23410]
§ Mr. TimmsMy Department does not specifically collate any information about the linkage between exclusion and the number of criminal offences committed by under-18s.
However, the Home Office, which lead on Youth Crime issues, have carried out a number of research projects in this area. The latest of these is the report "The independent effects of permanent exclusion from school on the offending careers of young people", Home Office (RDS Occasional Paper No 71). MORI's (2001) Youth Survey 2001 for the Youth Justice Board also examines the link between exclusion and crime.
§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many decisions taken by schools in the Buckingham constituency permanently to exclude pupils were reversed by independent appeal panels in each year since 1997. [23733]
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§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe information for Buckinghamshire local education authority is shown in the table.
Parliamentary constituencies figures are calculated by adding figures from all the schools in the constituency together. As exclusion appeals are collected at local education authority level and not at school level they cannot be aggregated into parliamentary constituencies.
School year Number of appeals lodged Number of appeals heard Number of successful appeals 1996–97 1 1 0 1997–98 12 8 3 1998–99 9 9 3 1999–2000 10 8 4