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Taxis pull up throughout the day outside the brightly painted Magpie Centre to drop off its growing cohort of...
Absenteeism has become endemic in our schools. The search for solutions is keeping headteachers awake at night but, despite...
Around a quarter of pupils have missed 10 per cent or more sessions since September
Remote learning can be used to 'reintegrate' some absent pupils and also for those who are off with infections,...
Ofsted also found remote education has 'negatively affected' some pupils' perception of the need to be in school
The DfE is consulting on more prescriptive absence rules, ordering schools to be 'proactive' and councils to use their...
The number of fines issued for poor school attendance have continued to increase sharply following a landmark Supreme Court...
Unauthorised pupil absence rates have remained at the highest since records began over a decade ago, new figures show....
Parents fined for their children’s unauthorised absence fell a little last year, but the figures did not change as...
