Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Permanent exclusions and suspensions - state-funded alternative provision (including PRU)

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Published 23 November 2023

Last updated 23 November 2023

Termly number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension by term in state-funded alternative provision schools (includes pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies).

Data set details

Theme: Pupils and schools
Publication: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England
Release: Autumn term 2022/23
Release type
Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
Indicators: Headcount
Number of schools
Permanent exclusions
Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2022/23 Autumn term

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_identifier	time_period	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	school_type	num_schools	headcount	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Autumn term	201819	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	929	E06000057	Northumberland	Pupil referral unit	1	10	21	210.00000	14	140.00000
Autumn term	201819	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	351	E08000002	Bury	Pupil referral unit	1	80	19	23.75000	9	11.25000
Autumn term	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	350	E08000001	Bolton	Pupil referral unit	4	89	41	46.06742	28	31.46067
Autumn term	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	353	E08000004	Oldham	Pupil referral unit	1	50	68	136.00000	40	80.00000
Autumn term	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	355	E08000006	Salford	Pupil referral unit	4	90	20	22.22222	17	18.88889

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables
Variable name	Variable description
headcount	Headcount
num_schools	Number of schools
one_plus_susp	Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension
one_plus_susp_rate	Pupil enrolments with one or more suspensionn (rate)
perm_excl	Permanent exclusions

Footnotes

For 2019/20 and 2020/21, while suspensions and permanent exclusions were possible throughout the academic year, pandemic restrictions will have had an impact on the numbers presented and caution should be taken when comparing across years.

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