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95%+ attendance almost doubles odds of GCSE pass

DfE research finds missing just 10 days of year 11 halves the odds of getting a grade 5 in English and maths

Year 11s still missing one in 10 lessons as exams near

Pupil absences ‘remain stubbornly high’ as exam season approaches

DfE will no longer publish school Covid absence updates

Leaders warn ‘having no stats doesn’t mean Covid has disappeared’

Covid: School attendance data collection to go weekly from October

Schools will be asked to submit Covid-19 attendance data to the government on a weekly rather than daily basis from October, it has been announced. The educational setting status form, which has provided the government with information about attendance and Covid-related absences throughout the pandemic, will reopen for the autumn term on Thursday. In an […]

Covid: School attendance falls again after brief boost

School attendance has declined again following two weeks of improvement – with nearly 50,000 more children off last week for Covid-19 related reasons than the week before. The latest attendance data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that between 7 and 9 per cent of the pupil population – up to 694,000 children – […]