Details of excluded children.

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Dear Wandsworth Borough Council,

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for the number of children who have been permanently excluded from a primary school or nursery in the Wandsworth area in the last ten years.

Please could you break down the results to show the figures for each year seperately, and also to indicate the respective figures for each age group.

For example:

2009:
Nursery (x) children excluded,
Reception (x) children excluded,
Key stage 1 (x) children excluded,
Key stage 2 (x) children excluded

If figures do not exist for the full 10 years, please provide information from as far back as possible.

Yours faithfully,

Jude Cosgrove

Freedom Of Information, Wandsworth Borough Council

Freedom of Information Act request - 2011/4953 - Details of excluded children

Thank you for your request for information received on 27/07/2011.

This will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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Freedom of Information Act request -  2011/4953 - Details of excluded
children

 

I refer to your request for information received on27/07/2011.  Please see
the information below in response to your request: -

Please note this information has already been published by the DFE a link
to their website where the information can be found is attached . Please
note that due to the small numbers involved some of the information will
have been suppressed to protect the children from being identified .

 

[1]http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB...

 

See also data published by Wandsworth in February 2011, the report
contains a 10 year comparison of the exclusion data from Wandsworth
schools, the report is attached and available via the following link:

 

[2]http://ww3.wandsworth.gov.uk/moderngov/i...

 

Please note, we are not able to provide the breakdown of the information
you have asked for as providing the exclusion data broken down by year
group would result in the disclosure of information that would lead to the
identification of a 3rd party individual.  For this reason the information
has been provided as above.  

 

The exclusion data, in the form of the year group breakdown you have
requested, is exempt from disclosure under Section 40 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  Where the numbers of children identified in any one
year, or in any one school, are less than five the number of exclusions or
the School name has been redacted to protect the children from being
identified. This information has been deemed personal data and as such is
exempt from disclosure.

 

The names of the Schools with less than 5 exclusions in any one year, and
the exact number of exclusions in any one year group where the number of
exclusions was less than five in total  constitute personal data that
would enable the identification of an individual.  Disclosure of this
information would result in a breach of one or more of the principles of
the Data Protection Act and is therefore exempt in accordance with section
40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act.

 

I hope this information meets your needs. If you do not understand the
information provided or wish to discuss anything further, please feel free
to contact me and I, or another member of the team will be able to assist
you.

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decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: 

 

Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF

 

Regards

 

 

 

James De Cort

Information Management Officer

[3][Wandsworth Council request email]

 

 

 

 

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