The report, published by the Department for Education and Skills, also found high exclusion rates among Traveller children in general, and revealed that in 2002/03, children of Irish heritage were more likely to be permanently excluded than any other group. "Actual members were small, but their rate of exclusion was nearly four times that of overall rates," it said.
It also drew attention to the difficulties faced by Black children at school. Black Caribbean and other Black boys were twice as likely to be categorised as having behavioural, emotional or social difficulty as White British boys.
- www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RTP01-05.pdf.
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