Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to (a) update and (b) consult on guidance for head teachers on their powers to exclude.

The Department is taking forward an ambitious programme of reform which backs heads and teachers to enforce discipline and, where appropriate, to use exclusion, while equipping schools to support children at risk of exclusion and ensuring excluded children continue to receive support and a good education.

The Government previously committed to revising guidance on exclusions and behaviour, including producing guidance on the use of in-school units and ‘managed moves’. We will provide an update on plans to publish revised guidance in due course.