Pupils: Absenteeism
Commons · Question 22815 · Tabled 8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of persistent school absences in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire and (iii) England; and what step
Answer
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 16 Jan 2025
Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at regional and local authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases.The department doe...