Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the exclusion review will make a comparative assessment of exclusion rates of academies and maintained schools.

The externally led review of exclusions practice and implications for pupil groups disproportionately represented in the national statistics, will consider how schools use exclusion and how this impacts on all pupils, but particularly why some groups of children are more likely to be excluded from school. The department will publish full details of the review, including how views can be submitted, in due course.

Statistics on permanent and fixed-period exclusions published in July 2017 “Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2015 to 2016” are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016.

The national data tables within this release include exclusion rates for all academies and maintained schools.