Guidance

Exclusions statistics guide

How the Department for Education (DfE) publishes permanent and fixed-period exclusions statistics for schools in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 30 July 2015
• Last updated: 6 September 2017
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  1. 6 September 2017

     Updated guidance following the release of 2015 to 2016 exclusion statistics. Updated rounding and suppression rules, and added a section on the uses and users of exclusion statistics.

  2. 30 July 2015

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Exclusions statistics guide

Ref: DFE-00226-2015

PDF, 357 KB, 31 pages

Details

This guide sets out how DfE collects and publishes data about schools’ exclusion of pupils.

Published exclusions statistics are available.