Question follow-through · 25458
Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of (a) suspensions and (b) exclusions of pupils with SEND.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of (a) suspensions and (b) exclusions of pupils with SEND.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
Schools can use sanctions as a measure to improve behaviour and, in the most serious cases, exclusion may be necessary to protect other pupils and staff from disruption and restore a safe, calm learning environment. The government supports headteachers in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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