We were invited by Schools Week to put someone up for interview for this article. A big thank you to Education Director Kate Richardson for agreeing to do it.
Boosting the attendance of pupils who miss the “odd day” is the “really big prize” for schools, academies minister Baroness Diana Barran has told Schools Week.
Following a breakdown of Department for Education school attendance figures, Barran’s team discovered 31 per cent of children missed five to 15 per cent of school in the last academic year, up from 21 per cent before the pandemic.
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