Ministers and campaigners have been left shocked by the scale of the rise in pupil exclusions last year as revealed by latest data from the Department for Education.
The figures, published in July, show permanent exclusions were up 45% – from 6,500 to 9,400 – and suspensions up 36% – from 578,300 to 787,000 – in 2022/23, to record their highest annual rates.
School leaders and children’s wellbeing campaigners point to a shortage of resources, inadequate support for struggling pupils and fractured relationships with parents post pandemic as factors for the deterioration in classroom behaviour.
New schools minister Stephen Morgan said the “shocking figures” are a “wake-up call about the problems in our schools”.
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