Question follow-through · 20399
Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) suspensions and (b) exclusions among pupils with SEND.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 2 Jan 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) suspensions and (b) exclusions among pupils with SEND.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jan 2025
Answer published
Every pupil deserves to learn in a safe, calm classroom, and the department will always support our hardworking and dedicated teachers to make this happen. Schools can use sanctions as a measure to improve behaviour and, in the most serious cases, exclusi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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