School exclusions plummet to just over a quarter of the level under Labour and full ‘expulsions’ to just one three-hundredth of the level then

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Professor John Robertson OBA

From School exclusion statistics published today, we can see that there were 39 717 temporary exclusions across Scotland in 2007/2008 and 11 676 in 2022/20231, the most recent figures. This a stunning decline further casting doubt of opposition party claims of a surge in school violence.

From the same data, we can see the number of pupils removed from the register, permanent exclusions, ‘expelled‘ as we might have said, fell from 292 in 2002/2003 to only 1 in the last two years.

I think this kind of comparison with the past is acceptable to Unionists. I’ll look at the figures for England separately.

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  1. https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-exclusion-statistics/

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  1. A teachers’ union spokesperson said, “Oor members are pure bealin aboot this. We says ‘bring back the belt’. Six of the belt and a clip round the ear, that’s the way tae end violence in schools”.

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