Every day 35 children are told to leave their school permanently and each of these will go on to cost society around £370,000 due to their poorer outcomes.
It means that the excluded children in any cohort cost around £1.2 billion over their lifetimes in education, health, benefits and criminal justice costs.
The stark figures are set out in a report by think-tank IPPR and come after a recent pledge from education secretary Justine Greening to review and improve standards in alternative provision for excluded pupils.
Figures published in the study show that permanent exclusions halved between 2006/07 and 2012/13, but have risen since then, including a 40 per cent rise in the last three years. Last year, 6,685 pupils were reported as permanently excluded.
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