00:00 What we know is there's a correlation between school exclusions and violence.
00:05 We also know unfortunately there's been a big increase in persistent absenteeism but
00:10 also suspensions.
00:11 Persistent absenteeism has more than doubled.
00:14 Suspensions up by more than 14%.
00:16 When you compare post-pandemic versus pre-pandemic, up by 71%.
00:20 So we know unfortunately we're seeing more children outside school than inside school.
00:25 Unfortunately, we also know from a piece of work done by Ofsted, somebody who was excluded
00:29 from school is twice as likely to carry a knife.
00:32 So we're trying to work with local authorities, work with headteachers, work with schools,
00:36 work with young people and others to try and keep young people in school.
00:41 I'm not telling headteachers what to do.
00:42 I'm not interfering with the discretion headteachers have to exclude a young person if they cross
00:48 a line and it affects the safety and wellbeing of staff or pupils.
00:51 But it's doing our best to try and keep pupils and young people in schools rather than outside
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