Exclusions

The team provides advice and guidance on the exclusion process to head teachers, governors, parents and colleagues for both primary and secondary schools as well as maintaining a database of all exclusions and providing exclusions data as required.

The team also deals with elective home education.

• DfE School exclusion guidance 2017 (gov.uk)
• DfE School exclusion guidance 2017 - summary of changes (pdf)
• LA exclusion procedures - guidance for schools and governors (word)
• Exclusion decision letter - guidance for schools (pdf)
• Parent/carer guidance leaflet (pdf)

Preventing exclusions

Information about focused programmes and services 2019 – 2020 on preventing exclusions. (Log in to view document)

Updated Local Authority exclusion notification forms

The notification forms below are in word format and should be emailed to Exclusionsteam@ealing.gov.uk

• Key to exclusion category codes(word)
• Key for ethnic origin, reason for exclusion and type of SEN
• EXP - permanent exclusion 2020/21 (all schools including sixth form)
• EXF - fixed period exclusion 2020/21 (all schools including sixth form)

Exclusion letters 2019-20

The following are all in word format:

Exclusion letter templates PRU

Exclusion letter templates for high, primary and special schools:

• Model letter 1: Fixed- term exclusion of five school days or fewer
• Model letter 1B: Fixed-term exclusion of five days or fewer resulting in an accumulation of 5+ days in a term
• Model letter 2: Fixed-term exclusion 6 - 15 days
• Model letter 3: Fixed-term exclusion 15 or more days
• Model letter 4: Permanent exclusion
• Model letter 5: Permanent exclusion of an out of borough resident
• Model letter 6: Pending fixed-term exclusion
• Model letter 6B: Pending exclusion – extended for more than 5 days
• Model letter 7: Lunchtime exclusion
• Model letter 8: Governors review meeting notification
• Model letter 9: Governors review meeting outcome letter upholding permanent exclusion
• Model letter 10: Governors review meeting outcome letter directing reinstatement
• Model letter 11: Governors outcome letter considering a fixed-term exclusion

School to school managed move

Protocol for school to school managed move / templates for headteachers (word)
MM - managed move school to school notification 2015/16 (high) (word)
The completed form, as well as the managed move school-to-school offer letter to the pupil's parent/carer, should be emailed to: Exclusionsteam@ealing.gov.uk

CCTV footage

Guidance for schools when considering CCTV footage as evidence for exclusion.

Exclusion data summary reports

The reports provide a summary of exclusion data for Ealing schools, along with a comparison against data in previous years, looking at the number of exclusions by areas such as year group, reason for exclusion, post-code, SEN stage etc:

Primary school summary and comparison 2019/20*
High school summary and comparison 2019/20*

*As a result of consultation, access is currently restricted to head teachers for the relevant phase, who have been notified of passwords via email. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions for future reports.

Contact

Debby Legg, principal officer exclusions or the exclusions support officer
Ben Lundy, exclusions and elective home education support officer
Service tel: 020 8825 5070
Service email: Exclusionsteam@ealing.gov.uk