Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of excluding a child from school.

There are a range of existing published sources that seek to quantify the cost of exclusion, but the Department has not conducted its own assessment of the cost to the public purse of excluding a child from school.

In March, the Government launched an externally led review of exclusions practice, led by Edward Timpson CBE. The review will consider how schools use exclusion and how this impacts on all pupils. The Government will respond to this review when it is published at the beginning of next year.

The full terms of reference for the review can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference.