Who are the children who have “fallen off the radar”?
Some thoughts on plans by the Children's Commissioner to find children who have "fallen off the radar."
How much in-person teaching have Year 11 missed?
With the first external exams since 2019 due to take place this year, we summarise the scale and variation of disruption experienced by Year 11s since the start of the pandemic
Measures of persistent absence for the COVID age
We try to calculate some new measures of persistent absence that try to account for the effects of COVID on school attendance data
Why aren’t there more students in school sixth forms?
Although CAGs in 2020 lead to students being awarded higher GCSE grades in 2020 , there was only a small increase in numbers staying on in school sixth forms
Inspection has become tougher for primary schools
A summary of Ofsted judgments from the Autumn term 2021 compared to the same period in 2019.
How does A-Level subject choice vary around the country?
A question of geography, not demography
How school absence varies from day to day
Absence tends to be lowest on Wednesday mornings and (perhaps unsurprisingly) highest on Friday afternoons.
Mike Treadaway
We pay tribute to the co-founder of FFT, Mike Treadaway, who sadly passed away recently
Increasing rates of sickness absence in primary schools
Absence overall has decreased this term, but sickness absence is as high as it's been during the pandemic