Waiting periods for permanently excluded children from mainstream secondary schools, 2023/24
Case reference FOI2026/00744
Received 22 March 2026
Published 14 April 2026
Request
Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. For the academic year 2023/24, in your local authority, for children permanently excluded from mainstream secondary schools:
1. What was the mean number of school days a child waited between the date of permanent exclusion and the start date at a new education placement?
1. What was the maximum (longest) number of school days a child waited between the date of permanent exclusion and the start date at a new education placement?
1. For how many of these permanently excluded children, did you meet the statutory duty to provide suitable full-time education by the sixth school day following permanent exclusion?
If any part of this request is unclear, please could you interpret it in the most reasonable way and provide the available information? Thank you very much. I would prefer to receive the response in electronic format please.
Response
Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
For the academic year 2023/24, in your local authority, for children permanently excluded from mainstream secondary schools:
1. What was the mean number of school days a child waited between the date of permanent exclusion and the start date at a new education placement?
Answer: 13.
1. What was the maximum (longest) number of school days a child waited between the date of permanent exclusion and the start date at a new education placement?
Answer: 56.
1. For how many of these permanently excluded children, did you meet the statutory duty to provide suitable full-time education by the sixth school day following permanent exclusion?
Answer: 6/31.
If any part of this request is unclear, please could you interpret it in the most reasonable way and provide the available information? Thank you very much.
I would prefer to receive the response in electronic format please.
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