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Black Caribbean girls losing out in exclusions figures
03 August 2010
Exclusion from school still impacts disproportionately on some ethnic minority groups, despite a drop in the overall numbers of students affected.
Girls from black Caribbean and mixed-race (white and black Caribbean) backgrounds are four times more likely than white girls to be excluded from school. Meanwhile Gypsy, Roma or Traveller girls are five times more likely to be excluded.
For boys the patterns of disproportionality remain persistent, with black Caribbean boys three times more likely to be excluded than their white counterparts. Similarly mixed white and black Caribbean boys are 2.6 times more likely and Gypsy, Roma or Traveller boys up to four times more likely to be excluded.
The latest national statistics on permanent and fixed-period (temporary) exclusions from schools in england were released by the Department for Education on 29 July 2010
The figures highlight the need for ongoing vigilance. It is important to note that the figures do not measure in-school exclusion, including on-site units, which may be housing large numbers of young people outside of mainstream education on school sites. Neither do the figures tell us the number of so-called 'managed moves' which take place.
