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A government-funded study of the fate of young people permanently excluded from school lost touch with a quarter of its sample within two years of their exclusion.

Of the remainder, about half of the young people were in education, training or employment and about half admitted to offending.

Young white people who had been excluded were more likely than excluded young black people to be out of education, training and employment after two years, and more likely to be offending.

Some 26 per cent of the sample had passed a GCSE.

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