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<p>Information on excluded pupils is collected from schools via the school census
data collection. The department does not routinely collect information about a child’s
living arrangements, nor does it collect information on a child’s relationship with
their parents or other adults.</p><p>The department does collect the home address
and certain other characteristic information that will provide some insight into the
home background of individual children. This includes information concerning: whether
the pupil would be eligible for free school meals or other funding streams (including
early years pupil premium and disability access fund); whether the pupil is a service
child; and whether the pupil has left care in England and Wales through either adoption,
a special guardianship order, a residence order or a child arrangement order.</p><p>A
robust approvals panel and other controls are in place to ensure that our data is
safely guarded and used only in legal, secure and ethical ways.</p>
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