Exclusions from schools (FOI)

​Request

A
Please can I have the number of days pupils have been excluded from each of the secondary school over the last four years.

B
Please can I have the total number of exclusions from the primary schools over the last four years.

C
Please can I have the total number of pupils that were being home schooled for each of the last four years.

Response

A
Information for 2014 – 2017 is available within a previous Freedom of Information response, available at the following link:

School Exclusions (FOI)

Please note that this information was previously recorded as numbers of instances – not days. To cross reference every instance to ascertain number of days pupils were excluded over the last four years would exceed the time limits of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Regulations.

The number of days of exclusions in secondary schools for 2017-18 is outlined below:

B
Information for 2014 – 2017 is available within a previous Freedom of Information response, available at the following link:
School Exclusions (FOI)

Please note that this information was previously recorded as numbers of instances – not days. To cross reference every instance to ascertain number of days pupils were excluded over the last four years would exceed the time limits of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Regulations

The number of days of exclusions in primary schools is outlined below:

The Education Department have determined that providing a breakdown by primary school would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Law has been applied.

C
Information for 2014 – 2017 is available within previous Freedom of Information responses, available at the following links:
Home schooled children (FOI)
Home schooling (FOI)

The total number of pupils that were being home schooled for each of the last two years is outlined below:

Articles applied

Article 16      A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1)     A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Article 25 Personal Information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.