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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Eleanor Busby

Number of school suspensions and exclusions in England has risen in a year

The rise comes amid warnings of challenging behaviour in classrooms following the pandemic (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Wire)

The number of suspensions from schools in England has risen in a year, Government figures show.

Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows there were 295,559 suspensions in the spring term of 2023/24, compared to 263,904 during the spring term of 2022/23 – a rise of 12%.

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