The number of permanent exclusions from state schools has risen by 15 per cent, with 40 pupils now being banned from their school every day.
The latest figures from the Department for Education, published today, show that the number of permanent exclusions across all state-funded primary, secondary and special schools increased from 6,685 in 2015-16 to 7,720 in 2016-17.
This means there were around 40.6 permanent exclusions per day in 2016-17, up from 35.2 per day in 2015-16.
The rate of permanent exclusions increased from 0.08 per cent to 0.10 per cent of pupil enrolments, which means that around 10 pupils per 10,000 were excluded.
Fixed-period exclusions on the rise
Most permanent exclusions (83 per cent) were in secondary schools.
The DfE data also shows that the number of fixed-period exclusions across all state-funded primary, secondary and special schools increased from 339,360 in 2015-16 to 381,865 in 2016-17
There were around 2,010 fixed-period exclusions per day in 2016-17, up from an average of 1,786 per day in 2015-16.
The rate of fixed-period exclusions across all state-funded primary, secondary and special schools also increased - from 4.29 per cent of pupil enrolments in 2015-16 to 4.76 per cent in 2016-17.
