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Excluding children for no real reason: What is the extent of the use of the category ‘other’ in reporting the reasons for fixed and permanent school exclusion in England?

Martin-Denham, Sarah and Donaghue, Jacob (2020) Excluding children for no real reason: What is the extent of the use of the category ‘other’ in reporting the reasons for fixed and permanent school exclusion in England? University of Sunderland, Sunderland.

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Abstract

The Department for Education (DfE) guide on exclusion shares twelve categories that head teachers choose from when reporting the reason for fixed and permanent exclusions from school. It is made explicit that of these twelve, the ‘other’ category is ‘to be used sparingly’ (2017a, p. 17; 2019a, p. 96). This policy brief examines the percentage of ‘other’ as the reason for fixed period and permanent school exclusion from 153 local authorities (LA) in England in 2017/18 (DfE, 2019b). In some LA areas, the reason ‘other’ accounts for over 57% of all fixed period and 67% of permanent exclusions issued. This report explores the rate of children excluded under the category ‘other’ and highlights how the North East accounted for 70% of the top 10 local authorities that assigned the reason ‘other’ for fixed period exclusions in 2017/18.

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Item ID: 11472
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/11472

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ORCID for Sarah Martin-Denham: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4028-4197
ORCID for Jacob Donaghue: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6700-0641

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Date Deposited: 28 Jan 2020 09:48
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2020 11:04

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Author: Sarah Martin-Denham ORCID iD
Author: Jacob Donaghue ORCID iD

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Faculty of Education and Society > School of Education

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Education > Educational Research

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