Academic year 2018/19

Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Data on suspensions and permanent exclusions, including by reason, duration, by pupil characteristics and data on independent review panels.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 30 July 2020
• Last updated: 2 February 2021

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• Exclusion rates - Local authority - 18/19

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• Fixed period exclusion rates in pupil referral units, 13/14 to 18/19

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• Permanent exclusion rates in pupil referral units, 13/14 to 18/19

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• Exclusion reviews - 12/13 to 18/19

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• Fixed period exclusion rates, by school type, National, 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Exclusion rates by ethnicity - National - 16/17 to 18/19

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• Fixed period exclusions by reason - 14/15 to 18/19

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• Permanent exclusion by reason - 14/15 to 18/19

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• Permanent exclusion rates, by school type, National, 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Fixed period exclusions - average days lost (1314 to 1819)

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Average number of fixed period exclusions and average days lost per excluded pupil.

  • Number of rows: 3,889
  • Indicators:
    • Average days lost per excluded pupil. (Number of days of fixed period exclusion / pupils with one or more fixed period exclusion).
    • Average number of fixed period exclusions per excluded pupil. (Number of fixed period exclusions / pupils with one or more fixed period exclusion).
    • Fixed period exclusions
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2013/14 to 2018/19

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• Permanent and fixed period exclusions - by geography (0607 to 1819)

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number and percentage of permanent and fixed period exclusions and those pupils receiving one or more fixed period exclusion.

  • Number of rows: 286,043
  • Indicators:
    • Fixed period exclusions
    • Fixed period exclusions (rate)
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Fixed period exclusions - number of exclusions (0607 to 1819)

  National

  Number of pupils by the number of exclusions they have received.

  • Number of rows: 1,700
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils
  • Filters:
    • Number of fixed period exclusions
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Permanent and fixed period exclusions - by IDACI decile, SEN type of need and FSM ever 6 (0607 to 1819)

  National

  Number and percentage of permanent and fixed period exclusions and those pupils receiving one or more fixed period exclusion by pupil characteristics (IDACI, SEN type of need, FSM ever6)

  • Number of rows: 891
  • Indicators:
    • Fixed period exclusions
    • Fixed period exclusions (rate)
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • Characteristic
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Permanent and fixed period exclusions - by pupil characteristics (0607 to 1819)

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number and percentage of permanent and fixed period exclusions and those pupils receiving one or more fixed period exclusion by pupil characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 449,496
  • Indicators:
    • Fixed period exclusions
    • Fixed period exclusions (rate)
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • Characteristic
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Permanent and fixed period exclusions - pupil referral units (1314 to 1819)

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number and percentage of permanent and fixed period exclusions and those pupils receiving one or more fixed period exclusion in pupil referral units

  • Number of rows: 2,990
  • Indicators:
    • Fixed period exclusions
    • Fixed period exclusions (rate)
    • Headcount
  • Time period: 2013/14 to 2018/19

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• Fixed period exclusions - number of days missed (0607 to 1819)

  National

  Number of pupil enrolments by total length of fixed period exclusion accrued across the academic year.

  • Number of rows: 2,424
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils
  • Filters:
    • Number of days missed to fixed period exclusions
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Fixed period exclusions - duration of exclusion (0607 to 1819)

  National

  Number of fixed period exclusions by length of exclusion

  • Number of rows: 2,275
  • Indicators:
    • Number of fixed period exclusions
  • Filters:
    • Duration of exclusion in days
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Permanent and fixed period exclusions - by reason for exclusion (0607 to 1819)

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of permanent and fixed period exclusions by reason for exclusion.

  • Number of rows: 8,293
  • Indicators:
    • Fixed period - All exclusions
    • Fixed period - Bullying
    • Fixed period - Bullying (%)
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2006/07 to 2018/19

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• Exclusion reviews (1213 to 1819)

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Number of review panels for permanent exclusions lodged and their outcome.

  • Number of rows: 3,421
  • Indicators:
    • A1 - Number of independent reviews lodged (in academic year)
    • B1 - Independent reviews determined by an independent review panel
    • B2 - Independent reviews determined by an independent review panel (% of reviews lodged)
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2012/13 to 2018/19

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Supporting files

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5 supporting data files

• exclusion appeals (9798 to 1112)

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• permanent and fixed period exclusions - by local authority district (1617 to 1819)

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• permanent and fixed period exclusions - by post looked after arrangements (plaa) (1718 to 1819)

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• pre-release access list

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• metadata

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘Permanent and Fixed Period Exclusions in England: 2018/19’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

This release provides information on exclusions in: 

• state-funded primary schools 
• state-funded secondary schools 
• special schools (including non-maintained special schools)
• pupil referral units 

The information is based on data collected via the school census

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

This dataset has not had suppression applied. 

Conventions 

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data. 

‘:’ Not applicable.

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