School exclusion rates have risen back to pre-pandemic levels, figures suggest, with the number of suspensions soaring again from last year’s record-breaking numbers.
The Department for Education has today published exclusion and suspension statistics for the 2022-23 autumn term.
Full year statistics are not published until later in the year. But the data shows a continued rise in both areas compared to the same term before Covid.
There were 3,100 permanent exclusions in last year’s autumn term – a rate of 0.04, which is equivalent to four per every 10,000 pupils – the same as the pre-pandemic 2019-20 autumn term.
