# Suspensions and exclusions

> Term-specific suspension and permanent-exclusion rates with their pupil denominators.

- Category: People
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `suspensions-and-exclusions`
- Source: [Department for Education](https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/suspensions-and-permanent-exclusions-in-england)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/suspensions-and-exclusions](https://londongraph.com/g/suspensions-and-exclusions)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/suspensions-and-exclusions](https://londongraph.com/data/suspensions-and-exclusions)

## Methodology

Department for Education local-authority data by term, across state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. The latest map is explicitly the latest published term rather than an invented annual total; the timeline retains published term counts. Pandemic-affected years require caution, small values may be rounded or suppressed, and rates retain the published pupil denominator.

## Visualisations

- [Latest term](https://londongraph.com/g/suspensions-and-exclusions): Compare the latest published term's rates with exact events and denominators.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/suspensions-and-exclusions?view=distribution): Inspect the selected latest-term rate across London authorities.
- [Term history](https://londongraph.com/g/suspensions-and-exclusions?view=term-history): Keep suspensions, permanent exclusions and pupils suspended as separate published count series. Caveat: Pandemic-affected years are not a normal attendance baseline.
- [Rate relationship](https://londongraph.com/g/suspensions-and-exclusions?view=rate-relationship): Compare suspension and permanent-exclusion rates without combining them into a score.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.