While the rate was 14.3% during the first two terms of 2022/23, levels of children permanently or temporarily excluded from school rose to 17% during the following year.
Researchers also found that during 2022/23 a record total of 32 million days of learning were lost by pupils of all ages “due to a combination of unauthorised absence and exclusions”. This figure is 72% higher than in 2018/19, the last full school year before the pandemic.
Charities the IPPR and The Difference, which have carried out the research, are warning that previous exclusions and absences estimates “have failed to capture the full picture or children losing learning nationally”.
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