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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of excluded children, broken down by key stage, have (a) received education in pupil referral units and (b) had one-to-one home tuition in each of the last five years. [196995] Mr. Stephen Twigg: Information on the provision made for permanently excluded pupils was first collected in March 2001 via the Education of Permanently Excluded Pupils (EPEP) Survey. There were two further updates in September 2001 and March 2002 before the survey was discontinued. However, figures from the most recent collection of this survey were incomplete and not sufficiently robust to provide a breakdown of the type of educational provision received by excluded pupils. The available information is given in the table. Distribution of mode of provision of education for excluded pupils--England, March and September 2001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. March 2001 1 Key Stages 1 Key Stages 1 and 2 Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 PRU 40.8 45.1 39.1 Home tuition 32.3 24.0 11.0 Voluntary Sector 0.2 0.1 0.8 FE college -- 0.4 9.8 Work related -- 0.1 3.3 Mixed provision 4.3 5.6 16.7 Other provision 9.6 8.7 8.8 No provision 12.7 16.1 10.4 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 September 20012 PRU 44.7 51.0 46.6 Home tuition 30.8 20.3 9.6 Voluntary Sector 0.0 0.8 1.5 FE college -- 0.1 12.8 Work related -- 0.1 5.1 Mixed provision 5.1 4.8 7.5 Other provision 11.1 9.0 7.6 No provision 8.2 13.9 9.3 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Based on replies from 144 out of 150 LEAs. 2 Based on replies from 146 out of 150 LEAs. Source: EPEP survey In 1999 the Government gained a commitment from LEAs to provide a full time education for all permanently excluded pupils by September 2002. Findings from the EPEP survey indicated that on 30 September 2002, 143 LEAs were offering full time education to pupils permanently excluded from school, and seven LEAs were not. Since this survey, better systems have been put in place to track pupils. Currently two LEAs are not providing full time education for all their pupils. The Department continues to work through the Children's Services Improvement Advisers to support LEAs to sustain this commitment and provide high quality, full time educational provision for all permanently excluded pupils.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1295-7W;426 c1299-301W; 196995

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Further education Home education Pupil exclusions Pupils Pupil referral units

Contains statistics

Yes

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