Will the Government’s latest attendance initiative work?
The DfE's latest proposals target schools and Local Authorities. But are they looking in the right place?
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
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.
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
Exploring persistent absence
Some thoughts about how persistent absence could be defined in a world affected by Covid
The SEND Review ought to find out why so many young people are in local authority commissioned alternative provision
Over 32,000 young people were in education outside of the state-funded school system but paid for by local authorities in January 2021. We take a closer look at this group.