Guidance
Exclusions statistics guide
How the Department for Education (DfE) publishes permanent and fixed-period exclusions statistics for schools in England.
Applies to England
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This guide sets out how DfE collects and publishes data about schools鈥� exclusion of pupils.
Published exclusions statistics are available.
Updates to this page
Published 30 July 2015
Last updated 6 September 2017
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Updated guidance following the release of 2015 to 2016 exclusion statistics. Updated rounding and suppression rules, and added a section on the uses and users of exclusion statistics.
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First published.