What can schools do about record absences?
The Briefing Room
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The Impact of the Pandemic on School Abroad
persistence absence is children who are missing at least 10% of school. That's around seven days in each academic term. In autumn 2019, persistent absence across England was 13.1%. By autumn 2022, that was 24.2%. So we are seeing the most troubling part of absence running at consistently twice the level it was before the pandemic. This is not a marginal shift, it's seismic. And what have teachers been telling you about the impact of these absences? Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out.
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