Schools should prioritise “encouraging” and “individualised” approaches to tackling absence in addition to “punitive sanctions”, says a new report. The report by the National...
The growth in the attainment gap between poorer 16-year-olds and their better-off peers between 2019 and 2023 can be “entirely explained” by higher absences...
Children taking term-time holidays represent “a very small percentage of the attendance problem”, with the government focused on those missing “significant amounts of school...