Discrimination is also leaving girls at a higher risk of sexual harassment in pupil referral units and leading to calls for youth services to be gender specific to better support their needs.
The report found that dual heritage girls from a mixed white and black Caribbean background are being excluded at three times the rate of their white British peers, according to figures from 2019 to 2021.
Official data says girls are being excluded for “persistent disruptive behaviour”.
But children’s workers interviewed by researchers warned that girls “are often treated more punitively because they are contravening gender norms” as they are “not acting in a way girls are traditionally expected to”.
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