Study Reveals Detrimental Effects of Exclusion on Primary School Students GCSE Outcomes
Charity Chance UK has conducted a study into the long-term impacts of children being excluded or suspended from primary school, finding that almost all pupils excluded at that age had a special education need or disability.
The majority of children excluded from primary school don’t pass their GCSEs in English and math, according to new research.
The charity Chance UK looked at the long-term impact of children being excluded or suspended from primary school.
The study tracked various year groups across their school lives and included data from 3.2 million pupils in England.
They found that 97% of those excluded from primary school had a special educational need or disability.
Mary-Anne’s son has ADHD; before his diagnosis, schools struggled to cope with his behavior.
She said, “My son was permanently excluded at five years old; they referred him to go to a pupil referral unit.
“He would have been the only five-year-old in the building. I was like, ‘No, we’re not doing this’.
“My son was the angry boy. I was saying there must be a reason why he gets so angry and then be completely calm, but they [the teachers] were just like, ‘no, he’s really naughty’.”
More than 22,000 children aged six years and under were excluded or suspended in primary schools in England in 2022.
But teaching unions have raised concerns that, since the pandemic, behavior in classrooms has significantly worsened, with teachers struggling to cope.
Tom Bennett, Department for Education behavior advisor, says exclusions are a last resort.
He said: “Exclusions are done in the most extreme circumstances, for example, when a child is violent towards a teacher, abuses another student, or persistently disrupts lessons.
“You can’t teach a lesson if someone is throwing chairs at you. Exclusions are incredibly rare; the average primary school excludes one child every 17 years.”
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Mary-Anne’s son was helped by Chance UK, which matches students with mentors to provide support to children with behavioral and emotional difficulties.
The charity is calling on the government for additional funding for specialist support in primary schools.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “For pupils at risk of exclusion, we’ve set out a new model for alternative provision schools to work with mainstream schools and provide targeted support early on, helping improve behavior and attendance and reduce the risk of exclusions.”
*Real names have been omitted in this report.
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