SUMMARY
The latest government figures show 6,685 children were permanently excluded from school in 2015/16, up from 5,785 the previous year. The number of temporary exclusions went up from almost 303,000 in 2014/15 to just under 340,000. Meanwhile, childhood psychiatric disorders affect between eight and 18 per cent of the school-age population, according to previous research.
Researchers from the University of Exeter set out to examine the links between permanent and temporary school exclusions, and children's mental health. They analysed data on more than 5,000 school-aged children, their parents and their teachers, taken from the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Surveys 2004 and 2007. Of the sample, 3.9 per cent - 183 children - had been excluded from school. Of those, 86 children had been excluded once, 36 twice and 60 three or more times with data on the number of exclusions missing for one.
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