School Exclusions Hub

Your guide to understanding and challenging school exclusions in England.
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Understand Your Rights.

Navigate Exclusion.

your future

Coram’s School Exclusions Hub offers free, expert information and resources on school exclusions in England, aimed at young people, parents and carers, teachers, third sector organisations, and legal practitioners.

UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS.

NAVIGATE EXCLUSION.

SHAPE YOUR FUTURE.

Coram’s School Exclusions Hub offers free, expert information and resources on school exclusions in England, aimed at young people, parents and carers, teachers, third sector organisations, and legal practitioners.

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Your Rights

Information for young people about your rights

The Law

A summary of the law that applies to school exclusions

Step-by-step

Guidance and resources for each stage of the process

Get Help

The legal support we offer

Your Rights

Information for young people about your rights

The Law

A summary of the law that applies to school exclusions

Step-by-step

Guidance and resources for each stage of the process

Get Help

The legal support we offer

Introduction to the Hub

Coram’s School Exclusion Hub provides free legal information on school exclusions in England and Wales, including guidance and practical tools for appealing a school’s decision to exclude a young person.

The Hub offers support and resources aimed aton school exclusion for young people, parents and carers, teachers, and third sector organisations and legal practitioners advocating on behalf of an excluded young person.

You can explore each section of the Hub using the buttons below.

School exclusion: a crisis in numbers

Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2023/2024

954,952
Suspensions
10,885
Permanent exclusions
21%
Increase in exclusions from 22/23 to 23/24
1.5 x
Black Caribbean pupils are 1.5 times more likely to be suspended than their White British peers
52%
of permanently excluded pupils had special educational needs
51%
suspended for persistent disruptive behaviour, making it the most common reason for suspension

Latest News

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Inequality in school exclusions – who’s losing out?

02/10/2025
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Tackling the rise in school exclusions

17/09/2025
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Coram calls for ‘urgent and comprehensive action’ to address significant rise in school exclusions

10/07/2025
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Coram's School Exclusion Program

School Exclusions Clinic

We provide legal representation and advice to parents or carers of children and young people who have been excluded.

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Advocacy support

We provide one-to-one advocacy support for children and young people at risk of school exclusion.

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Young Ambassadors

By young people, for young people – read about our Voices in Action Ambassadors, who are using their experiences of homelessness and exclusion to make a difference.

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Policy influence

We call for change, using evidence from frontline services and insights from our young ambassadors to ensure that children's rights are embedded in law, policy, and practice.

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Coram's School
Exclusion
Programme

School Exclusions Clinic

We provide legal representation and advice to parents or carers of children and young people who have been excluded.
Find out more

Advocacy support

We provide one-to-one advocacy support for children and young people at risk of school exclusion.
Find out more

Young Ambassadors

By young people, for young people – read about our Voices in Action Ambassadors, who are using their experiences of homelessness and exclusion to make a difference.
Find out more

Policy influence

We call for change, using evidence from frontline services and insights from our young ambassadors to ensure that children's rights are embedded in law, policy, and practice.
Find out more

By young people, for young people

Read about our School Exclusion Ambassadors, who are using their lived experience of school exclusion to make a difference.
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Excluded but not Unheard

A Coram Voices in Action Zine from creatives who have been excluded from school but have never lost their voice.

READ THE ZINE

“Exclusion isn’t the end. For many of us, it was the start of a different journey, the path that led us to each other. That’s what the Coram Ambassadors are: we rise, we fight. We’re not here to beg for a seat at the table. We’re building our own.

Hope is resistance. It’s turning pain into power. It’s choosing to rewrite the story for those coming after us. We are the proof. The voice that says: you can get through it, you can find your people, and you are so much more than a label.

The next chapter is yours to write.”

Santina, Coram Young Ambassador

“Exclusion isn’t the end. For many of us, it was the start of a different journey, the path that led us to each other.
That’s what the Coram Ambassadors are: we rise, we fight. We’re not here to beg for a seat at the table. We’re building our own.
Hope is resistance. It’s turning pain into power. It’s choosing to rewrite the story for those coming after us.
We are the proof. The voice that says: you can get through it, you can find your people, and you are so much more than a label.
The next chapter is yours to write.”

Santina, Coram Young Ambassador

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“I am blown away with the information and support. I understood the process but, I now have the tools to challenge!“
School Exclusions Hub user
“I was looking up information about provision of alternative education for young people excluded from school. This is very helpful information.“
School Exclusions Hub user
“The resources have been really helpful in brainstorming arguments for our client. I especially like that the suggested wording documents highlight relevant excerpts of statutes and guidance as this means less searching on our end.“
Student volunteer, City School Exclusion Service
“It looks like it's got some very helpful information, particularly the step-by-step guide for written arguments. I wish I'd noticed it before our hearing with the governors, but at least I can use it to prep for the IRP! It's certainly a valuable resource to have access to.“
Student volunteer, City School Exclusion Service
“I found the 'Suggested Wording' documents particularly useful as a quick way of seeing how individual requirements from the guidance could be interpreted and applied in practice.“
Student volunteer, City School Exclusion Service
“I have used the resources on Coram's School Exclusion Hub regularly and have found them to be thorough and persuasive.”
Student volunteer, City School Exclusion Service