The inquiry on school exclusions, They Never Give Up On You, discovered evidence of "illegal exclusions" where a minority of schools exclude students on an "informal" basis.
It found instances of unrecorded short-term exclusions to allow children to "cool off", children being coerced into moving schools leaving no record of an exclusion and students being "sent home" and not allowed back into school until after a meeting has taken place with their parents.
"In most schools there is great attention paid to the legality and formality of what they are doing in terms of exclusions," children’s commissioner for England Maggie Atkinson said.
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