Anne Longfield’s latest report for her Commission on Young Lives says “over recent years, we have seen the growth of an exclusions culture that perversely rewards removing some vulnerable children from school roll”.
According to figures from the Department for Education, permanent exclusion figures have seen a gradual rise from 5,082 in 2010/11 to 7,894 in 2018/19, before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Despite schools being closed for part of the 2019/20 school year, 5,057 children in England were permanently excluded, the figures show.
Longfield warns that excluded children have a higher risk of involvement in the criminal justice system and being groomed and exploited by criminal gangs.
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