Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 20399

Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions

Tabled: 16 December 2024

Answered: 2 January 2025

Question

Zöe Franklin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) suspensions and (b) exclusions among pupils with SEND.

Answer

Stephen Morgan

Every pupil deserves to learn in a safe, calm classroom, and the department will always support our hardworking and dedicated teachers to make this happen. Schools can use sanctions as a measure to improve behaviour and, in the most serious cases, exclusi...

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