This was before he had an ADHD diagnosis and although another school place was found for him, over the next year he was excluded many times for his behaviour. His mum told me: “It was so stressful; I’d dread hearing the words ‘can we just have a moment’.”
At Chance UK we see children - some as young as five - being suspended and excluded multiple times during their primary school years. So, we welcome the Commission on Young Lives report calling for an end to primary school exclusions. Although primary school exclusions are considerably smaller in number than at secondary school – exclusion at such a young age can have an incredibly negative impact on children. And, in the last full term before the pandemic, permanent exclusions rose by 20 per cent in primary schools, compared to three per cent in secondary schools.
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