Adoption UK has published a report on findings from a survey of adoptive parents in the United Kingdom asking about their children’s experiences in school with a particular focus on exclusions. Findings from 2,084 survey responses, each relating to one individual adopted child include 23% of children had received a fixed period exclusion and 14.5% of these had been excluded more than 10 times in their school career; and compared to national statistics from the Department for Education and devolved governments, adopted children are over-represented in exclusions statistics in all nations.
