Is it just me or do we seem to have more children in our schools with challenging behaviour year-on-year?! It definitely isn’t just me because if you refer to the data on exclusions in primary schools it shows an alarming upward trend over recent years.
In 2012, there were 37,790 fixed-period exclusions in primaries and a similar number in 2013. In the subsequent three years though this figure rose by approximately 5,000 per year. By 2016, we saw fixed term exclusions in primary schools reach 55,740. The picture with regard to permanent exclusions shows a similar increasing trend over those five years from 690 to 1,145 in 2016.
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