“The same old faces. Ten years this school’s been opened, and for 10 years after every assembly we see a line of boys here, and the same old faces.” Mr Gryce, Kes
Each July the Department for Education (DfE) publishes its annual statistics on fixed-term and permanent exclusion of children from English schools from the year before.
And each year, as predictable as a downpour on a bank holiday Monday, the report notes that children with SEND are far more likely than children without SEND to be excluded from a school, either for a fixed-term period or permanently.
For example, the DfE statistics for the 2014/15 academic year note that:
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