A report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on knife crime wants a government-led review to examine why many excluded children do not get the full-time education they are legally entitled to.
The report calls for an end to part-time education for excluded pupils, and for mainstream schools to be more accountable for the children they exclude.
In England, there were 7,900 permanent exclusions in 2017/18 - a 70 per cent increase since 2012/13. Meanwhile, there were 47,513 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in the year ending June 2019 across England and Wales - a 44 per cent increase since March 2011.
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