Publication - Advice and guidance

Included, engaged and involved part 2: preventing and managing school exclusions

Published: 19 June 2017
Directorate: Learning Directorate
Part of: Education
ISBN: 9781786521354

Part two of guidance document 'Included, Engaged and Involved', which refreshes the national policy on school exclusions.

Supporting documents

Annex D

Exclusion from Schools - Scottish Government National Statistics

Table 1a: Cases of exclusion by type of exclusion, 2006/07 to 2014/15

	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2012/13	2014/15
Exclusions in total	44,794	39,717	33,917	30,211	26,844	21,955	18,430
Of which:
Temporary exclusions	44,546	39,553	33,830	30,144	26,784	21,934	18,425
Removed from register	248	164	87	67	60	21	5

Table 1b: Cases of exclusion rate per 1,000 pupils, 2006/07 to 2014/15

	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2012/13	2014/15
Exclusions in total	63.9	57.5	49.9	44.7	40.0	32.8	27.2
Temporary exclusions	63.5	57.3	49.7	44.6	39.9	32.7	27.2
Removed from register	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0

Table 2a: Cases of exclusion by gender, 2006/07 to 2014/15

Primary schools
	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Total	6,018	5,616	4,953	4,433	4,191	3,854	3,478
Boys	5,525	5,188	4,537	4,030	3,823	3,552	3,197
Girls	493	428	416	403	368	302	281
Secondary schools
	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Total	37,566	32,905	27,704	24,665	21,688	17,106	14,098
Boys	28,323	24,985	20,933	18,559	16,119	12,699	10,734
Girls	9,243	7,920	6,771	6,106	5,569	4,407	3,364
Special Schools
	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Total	1,210	1,196	1,260	1,113	965	995	854
Boys	1,103	1,077	1,116	1,007	870	853	736
Girls	107	119	144	106	95	142	118

Table 2b: Cases of exclusion rate per 1,000 pupils by gender, 2006/07 to 2014/15

Primary schools
	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Total	15.7	15.0	13.4	12.1	11.5	10.4	9.0
Boys	28.3	28.2	24.0	21.5	20.5	18.8	16.2
Girls	2.6	2.3	2.3	2.2	2.1	1.7	1.5
Secondary schools
	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Total	119.9	106.5	91.3	81.6	72.2	58.4	49.5
Boys	180.4	161.7	137.6	122.3	106.6	86.0	75.0
Girls	53.1	51.3	44.8	40.6	37.3	30.3	23.8
Special Schools
	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Total	182.5	187.3	195.0	174.1	147.6	148.1	126.4
Boys	243.4	246.3	250.6	229.2	192.8	182.5	156.6
Girls	51.0	59.1	71.8	53.1	46.9	69.4	57.4

Table 3a: Cases of exclusion by stage from 2002/03 to 2014/15

Primary schools
	Total	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	P7
2002/03	4,131	95	173	238	505	741	999	1,380
2003/04	4,478	80	178	322	492	851	992	1,562
2004/05	5,319	130	245	402	717	938	1,284	1,603
2005/06	5,779	134	225	400	714	1,151	1,321	1,833
2006/07	6,018	156	305	400	653	1,062	1,534	1,908
2007/08	5,616	152	225	398	589	968	1,358	1,926
2008/09	4,953	137	246	339	567	824	1,167	1,673
2009/10	4,433	174	252	347	559	757	964	1,380
2010/11	4,191	143	216	381	535	759	928	1,229
2012/13	3,854	161	222	351	499	737	853	1,031
2014/15	3,478	150	260	388	478	592	672	938

Secondary and Special Schools
	Secondary Total	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	Special
2002/03	31,055	4,599	7,813	10,449	7,147	835	212	1,310
2003/04	33,465	5,180	8,948	11,032	7,342	807	156	976
2004/05	35,513	5,413	9,708	11,809	7,558	890	135	1,142
2005/06	36,136	5,570	9,444	12,400	7,723	865	134	1,075
2006/07	37,566	6,312	9,942	12,497	7,652	993	170	1,210
2007/08	32,905	5,139	8,723	10,912	7,202	801	128	1,196
2008/09	27,704	4,643	7,123	9,108	5,966	722	142	1,260
2009/10	24,665	3,985	6,553	8,240	5,042	691	154	1,113
2010/11	21,688	3,452	5,667	7,287	4,537	618	127	965
2012/13	17,106	2,865	4,670	5,414	3,459	565	133	995
2014/15	14,098	2,333	3,718	4,624	2,790	491	142	854

Table 4: Cases of exclusion by pupils living in the 20% most deprived and 20% least deprived areas according to Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation ( SIMD), 2007/08 and 2014/15

	Number of exclusions	Number of temporary exclusions	Number of removals from register	Number of pupils at census ¹	Rate per 1,000 pupils
2007/08 ²
Most deprived	17,308	17,228	80	147,431	117
Least deprived	2,008	1,993	15	133,658	15
2014/15 ²
Most deprived	7,579	7,578	1	145,720	52
Least deprived	1,005	1,005	0	126,680	8

1. 2007 pupil census data used in 07/08 and 2014 pupil census data used in 14/15.
2. SIMD 2006 was used for 07/08 data and SIMD 2012 was used for 2014/15 data.

Table 5a: Cases of exclusion (temporary and removals) amongst pupils Looked After by local authorities, 2009/10 to 2012/13

This data can be found here:

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2014/09/6499/5

Please contact Ian Volante if you need to clarify anything about these tables.

Table 6a: Cases of exclusion (temporary and removals) amongst pupils with additional support needs ( ASN), by provision type, 2006/07 to 2014/15

	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Primary
With ASN	1,668	1,537	1,573	1,565	1,636	2,272	1,926
all time in mainstream class	1,443	1,357	1,403	1,389	1,524	2,062	1,845
some time in special class	181	135	121	145	72	179	60
all time in special class	44	45	49	31	40	31	21
Without ASN	4,310	4,048	3,346	2,837	2,528	1,563	1,543
Data not available	40	31	34	31	27	19	9

Secondary
With ASN	4,928	4,890	4,893	5,049	5,854	7,336	6,957
all time in mainstream class	4,278	4,226	4,358	4,691	5,555	7,127	6,783
some time in special class	541	543	368	267	239	149	141
all time in special class	109	121	167	91	60	60	33
Without ASN	32,000	27,828	22,555	19,424	15,739	9,703	7,095
Data not available	638	187	180	192	95	67	46

Special	1,210	1,090	1,179	1,037	916	931	805
Data not available	0	106	81	76	49	64	49

With ASN	7,806	7,517	7,645	7,651	8,406	10,539	9,688
No ASN	36,310	31,876	25,901	22,261	18,267	11,266	8,638

Table 6b: Cases of exclusion (temporary and removals) rate per 1,000 pupils amongst pupils with additional support needs, by provision type, 2006/07 to 2014/15

	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	12/13	14/15
Primary
With ASN	105	93	89	79	48	36	26
all time in mainstream class	104	94	90	78	47	34	26
some time in special class	110	87	82	98	47	115	37
all time in special class	98	95	95	63	82	48	26
Without ASN	12	11	9	8	8	5	5
Secondary
With ASN	372	366	343	287	205	151	117
all time in mainstream class	376	367	349	293	207	152	117
some time in special class	404	418	294	240	197	141	167
all time in special class	215	231	302	188	114	122	50
Without ASN	107	94	78	68	58	40	31
Special	183	171	183	162	140	139	119

Contact

Email: Douglas Forrester

Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit

The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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