ABSTRACT
Approximately 50 per cent of secondary school children permanently excluded from school come from years 10 and 11. A survey by the DFE (1995) of such children in 11 LEAs found that some were placed within further education (FE) colleges; however, most were placed within PRUs. The survey found one exception where an authority placed 140 pupils within FE colleges on a parttime basis. FE colleges are often used in association with PRUs, with a pupil spending perhaps two days per week at a college and three days at the PRU. In general, FE placements are less popular with LEAs than using a PRU.
