attendance

• The number of children missing school reaches ‘crisis point’, warns Centre for Social Justice
• Education Department keeps no record of over 80,000 children educated at home
• Call for tighter checks on children taken out of class and taught at home

Nearly two million children in England are missing from school, according to a new study from a leading...

A new report by Ofsted looks at different aspects of pupil attendance and how schools tackle the current challenges they face.

From: Ofsted

Published 7 February 2022

A new report by Ofsted finds that schools that improve pupil attendance from a low baseline, maintain high levels of attendance and minimise persistent absence adopt similar strategies that can best be...

Leading experts come together to supercharge efforts to improve school attendance

From: Department for Education , Robin Walker MP , and The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP

Last week The Education Secretary hosted the first meeting of leading experts working with children to improve school attendance.

All members of the new attendance alliance pledged to engage with their members,...

Government attendance advisors to start work helping local areas and school trusts put new plans in place to increase attendance

From: Department for Education and Robin Walker MP

As part of the Education Secretary’s commitment to make school attendance his top priority, new expert attendance advisers with decades of first-hand experience are to begin work to reduce pupil absence....