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Attendance: Map out bullying ‘hotspots’ to cut absence, says report

Schools found success when they identified areas where pupils did not feel safe

The rise of parent activism

“Would you enter a burning building, just to meet a government target?” The question flashed up on screen during a webinar in January, attended by around 300 people, on ‘supporting school ‘refusal’ & attendance difficulties’ run by parent advocacy company Sunshine Support. The Department for Education’s recent attendance campaign had infuriated families nationwide with its […]

Butlin’s accused of ‘undermining’ school absence fight

Holiday firm offers four-night ‘showtime term-time midweek breaks’

Boosting attendance of ‘odd day’ absentees the ‘big prize’, says minister

The inside story of the government’s latest drive to cut absences

£2.3m absence mentoring pilot reaches just half of target

And just half of those reached achieved improved attendance

Absence fines: 1 in 5 pupils could fall below threshold

Around 1.7m children could now face fines, analysis finds, with 40 per cent of disadvantaged year 10 pupils below the threshold last year

Don’t give pupils time off for protests, new school guidance says

Clarity comes after Gillian Keegan said ‘missing school for activism is unacceptable’

Can online schools solve the post-Covid attendance crisis?

In total, 22.3 per cent of pupils missed more than one in 10 sessions in the last academic year, roughly double the proportion in 2018-19. Of disadvantaged pupils, nearly two in five are now classed as “persistently absent”. A Centre for Social Justice report this week concluded that Covid has well and truly shattered the […]

18 new attendance hubs to help 2,000 schools cut absence

DfE also confirms £15m rollout of attendance mentor scheme and new parent marketing campaign