Exclusions at schools soar to 35 per day
SOME 35 pupils a day were expelled or suspended last year – up five a day on the year before, figures show.
There were 6,685 exclusions from state schools in England in 2016 – or 35.2 a day – up from 5,785 in 2015, or 30.5 a day. Four in five were at secondaries.
But kids of four and under were expelled 50 times and suspended 3,035 times.
The Department for Education said pupils must be able to “learn without disruption and feel safe”.
But half those excluded suffer mental health problems, claims a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research. Kiral Gill of the IPPR said: “The discrimination of school exclusions is a crime.”