Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) were excluded from school; and what the total number of days lost to fixed-term exclusions was for children with SEND in each of the last three years.
The numbers of exclusions of pupils with special educational needs are available from the permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England statistical first releases, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions
The number of days ‘lost’ to fixed-term exclusions for pupils with special educational needs is not held. Schools must arrange alternative provision from the sixth day of a fixed-period exclusion, and may do so earlier.