Parents letting their children miss school instead of being late
Changes in how pupils are recorded as absent if they are more than 30 minutes late to school have been 'unhelpful' for relationships with families, education leaders have suggested.
Britain is in the grip of a school attendance crisis, with a record number of pupils missing more than half of lessons.
The impact of Covid
Department for Education (DfE) data indicate that in 2023-24, 2.3 per cent of pupils were 'severely absent', which means they missed at least 50 per cent of possible school sessions, compared with 2 per cent in 2022-23.
Overall, 171,269 pupils were classed as severely absent last academic year, up from 150,256 in 2022/23.
In 2018-19, the last academic year before the Covid-19 pandemic, 60,247 were classed as severely absent.
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