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Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy reporter
Published:
2:10 PM May 14, 2021
Hackney school exclusions have decreased in Hackney while home-schooling has increased.
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School exclusions in Hackney have plummeted over the past year while the number of families opting to home-educate their children has jumped, according to new data.
The disproportionate representation of children from Black and Traveller ethnic backgrounds in the figures paints a “damning” picture, according to Cllr Sophie Conway, chair of the children and young people’s scrutiny commission.
In an update from Hackney Education, the commission was told that since September 2019 there have been 42 permanent exclusions from local secondary schools and none from primary schools.