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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school children are permanently excluded from schools in the Greater London area. [116707] Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is shown in the table. Number of permanent exclusions by type of school 2001-02 (provisional estimates)1by local education authority area in London _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Primary2 Secondary2 Special3 Total Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage permanent of the permanent of the permanent of the permanent of the exclusions school exclusions school exclusions school exclusions school population4 population4 population4 population4 England 1,451 0.03 7,741 0.24 343 0.36 9,535 0.12 London 205 0.03 1,196 0.29 55 0.45 1,456 0.14 Inner London 80 0.03 386 0.30 23 0.50 489 0.13 Camden 2 0.02 24 0.22 2 0.68 28 0.12 City of London 0 0.00 5-- 5-- 5-- 5-- 5-- 5-- Hackney 9 0.05 21 0.26 3 0.80 33 0.12 Hammersmith and Fulham 2 0.02 34 0.47 1 0.32 37 0.22 Haringey 5 0.02 27 0.24 0 0.00 32 0.09 Islington 0 0.00 12 0.16 0 0.00 12 0.05 Kensington and Chelsea 3 0.04 9 0.25 1 1.32 13 0.12 Lambeth 9 0.05 29 0.40 0 0.00 38 0.14 Lewisham 13 0.06 51 0.44 2 0.38 66 0.19 Newham 12 0.04 37 0.21 1 1.39 50 0.10 Southwark 14 0.06 31 0.29 5 1.05 50 0.14 Tower Hamlets 1 0.00 36 0.26 1 0.25 38 0.10 Wandsworth 9 0.05 49 0.49 7 0.96 65 0.23 Westminster 1 0.01 26 0.32 0 0.00 27 0.14 Outer London 125 0.03 810 0.29 32 0.43 967 0.14 Barking and Dagenham 10 0.05 14 0.12 0 0.00 24 0.08 Barnet 3 0.01 51 0.24 0 0.00 54 0.11 Bexley 11 0.05 45 0.25 4 1.00 60 0.15 Brent 3 0.01 34 0.23 1 0.25 38 0.10 Bromley 6 0.02 79 0.37 0 0.00 85 0.18 Croydon 25 0.08 110 0.62 10 1.79 145 0.29 Ealing 4 0.01 59 0.38 1 0.21 64 0.15 Enfield 6 0.02 64 0.31 2 0.39 72 0.15 Greenwich 18 0.09 31 0.22 2 0.35 51 0.14 Harrow 5 0.03 63 0.70 0 0.00 68 0.24 Havering 2 0.01 42 0.26 1 0.42 45 0.12 Hillingdon 8 0.03 35 0.21 0 0.00 43 0.10 Hounslow 7 0.04 50 0.31 2 0.52 59 0.16 Kingston upon Thames 1 0.01 2 0.02 0 0.00 3 0.01 Merton 3 0.02 18 0.24 2 0.78 23 0.10 Redbridge 2 0.01 30 0.16 0 0.00 32 0.07 Richmond upon Thames 3 0.02 25 0.34 3 1.99 31 0.16 Sutton 1 0.01 34 0.23 0 0.00 35 0.12 Waltham Forest 7 0.03 24 0.18 4 0.59 35 0.10 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 19 LEAs in England have yet to confirm the data for their schools. Based on data as at 29 May 2003. 2 Includes middle schools as deemed. 3 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. 4 The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) pupils in primary, secondary and special schools, excluding dually registered pupils in special schools in January 2002. 5 Not applicable (no schools of this type) Source: Annual Schools' Census

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

116707; 406 c605-6W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Discipline Greater London Pupil exclusions Schools

Contains statistics

Yes

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