This Statistical First Release presents data on school exclusions collected from Local Education Authorities (LEAs) for the past ten academic years, 1997/98 to 2006/07.

The key results for 2006/07 are:

• The number of permanent exclusions has fallen by a third to 291.
• Boys accounted for three quarters of permanent exclusions.
• The number of fixed term exclusions has fallen slightly to just over 20,000.

The full release can be downloaded from the Statistics Wales website.