Number of excluded pupils in Herefordshire
Case reference FOI2024/00724
Published 22 May 2024
Request
If you have the data, please include academies, but if not, local authority maintained schools within the local authority area will be fine.
* How many pupils were excluded from primary and secondary schools managed by Herefordshire Council during the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and 2024 to date.
* For each exclusion, can you state what the reason(s) were?
* For each exclusion, can you state what school the pupil attended.
Response
If you have the data, please include academies, but if not, local authority maintained schools within the local authority area will be fine.
* How many pupils were excluded from primary and secondary schools managed by Herefordshire Council during the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and 2024 to date.
This information is publically available on the Government website where the published national statistics for permanent exclusions are detailed and can be viewed via the following link:
This is the most recent full year publication encompassing data up to the end of the academic year 2021-22.
You can use the link provided above for direct access to academic years 2018-19 to 2021-22.
Click the 'Download all data (zip)', and then open the file named 'exc_nat_region_la'. Data within this file reported all exclusions at Local Authority level.
As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
The reported statistics for 2022-23 and 2023-24 (year to date) have been derived from Herefordshire Council local records based on School Census submissions and is detailed in the attached spreadsheet.
* For each exclusion, can you state what the reason(s) were?
This information is available on the Government website and can be viewed via the link provided in response to question one above.
The reason(s) for each exclusion in the academic years from 2018-19 up to 2021-22 can be sourced from the downloaded zip file. In this instance the relevant file is named 'exc_reason_1920'. This data identifies the reason(s) for exclusion by school type.
As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
* For each exclusion, can you state what school the pupil attended.
The exclusion data for each individual school in Herefordshire is available on the Government website via the link provided in response to question one above. The relevant file is named 'exc_school_20230808'. This data identifies the number of exclusions for each school by academic year.
As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
Documents
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