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Around 1,250 children aged four or under were suspended from schools in England last year, figures revealed yesterday.

By Mark Ellis 30/07/2010

They showed the high number kept away from primaries and secondaries for attacking teachers and classmates, despite permanent expulsions falling.

Primary children were suspended nearly 17,000 times for violence, with 63,300 older youngsters given fixed-period exclusions for the same reasons, the Department for Education’s figures for 2008/09 show….Continue Reading