Call for 100% attendance next term to get children back in class

Published date15 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Dame Rachel de Souza said good attendance in schools should be everyone's responsibility, and that no child must become a "known unknown" to those responsible for protecting them

The Commissioner's March report - Where are England's Children? - looked at how there was no real-time live database of where pupils were absent from school across the country.

The report audited all 151 local authorities in England and estimated that 1,782,000 pupils were persistently absent from school in the 2021 autumn term.

Dame Rachel has since joined the Government's Attendance Alliance and has argued for better use of data to tackle the issue of...

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