Exclusions (and suspensions) data for the 2022/23 academic year (that’s right, last year) is due to be published in July.
By October last year, we’d got a bit impatient so tried to use attendance data we’d collected from schools to gauge whether the increase in exclusions and suspensions observed in 2021/22 continued.
We now return to this to see whether suspensions and exclusions increased again in the Autumn term this year.
Briefly, pupils who remain on the school roll but who have been suspended or permanently excluded are recorded in the attendance register using code E. If the exclusion is for 6 days or more, alternative provision is supposed to be arranged from the 6th day.
We use Autumn term 2023/24 attendance data collected from almost 10,000 schools subscribing to FFT Attendance Tracker. We then identify spells of absence recorded as code E. Counting spells gives us an approximate total number of exclusions and suspensions.
