Class A drugs: children by truanted or excluded in England 2003-2018

This statistic displays the proportion of school children who took Class A drugs in the last year in England, from 2003 to 2018, by whether they ever truanted or were excluded from school. In the year 2018, ten percent of school children who had taken class A drugs either truanted or were excluded from school, whereas only one percent never truanted or were excluded from school.

Proportion of school children (aged 11 to 15) who took Class A drugs in the last year in England from 2003 to 2018, by whether ever truanted or excluded

Characteristic	Truanted or excluded	Never truanted or excluded
2003	14%	2%
2004	14%	1%
2005	14%	1%
2006	14%	1%
2007	13%	1%
2008	12%	1%
2009	12%	1%
2010	9%	1%
2011	8%	1%
2012	9%	1%
2013	8%	1%
2014	8%	1%
2016	10%	1%
2018	10%	1%

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Release date

August 2019

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

01 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2018

Number of respondents

11,658*

Age group

11-15 years

Method of interview

Questionnaire and personal interview

Supplementary notes

* Unweighted bases: n (2003)=9,650, n (2004)=9307, n (2005)=8,702, n (2006)=7,741, n (2007)=7,396, n (2008)=7,451, n (2009)=7,288, n (2010)=6, 940, n (2011)=6,195, n (2012)=7,183, n (2013)=4,897, n (2014)=5,765, n (2016)=10,119, n (2018)=11,658

This statistic is using original data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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