questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the consistency with which the statutory guidance on suspensions is applied across schools in England; and what guidance his Department provides to parents where they consider a suspension to have been (a) disproportionate and (b) inconsistent with the guidance on suspensions.
answerText: The department monitors trends in suspensions regularly through our published statistical releases. The decision to exclude a pupil rightly lies with headteachers, and we are clear that exclusion may be necessary in the most serious cases to maintain safe...
heading: Pupil Exclusions