According to the latest Department for Education (DfE) figures on Permanent and Fixed Period Exclusions in England, 40 children in nursery and 930 in reception received one or more fixed period exclusion during the 2013 to 2014 school year.
During the same period, a total of 70 fixed period exclusions were issued for nursery children and 1,970 for those in reception.
Broken down by age, 970 children aged four and under received fixed period exclusions and 1,940 five-year-olds.
A fixed period exclusion is for a set number of days. The maximum amount of time any children can be excluded from school for a fixed term is 45 school days in an academic year.
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