Pupils: Attendance

(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason overall school attendance was 89 per cent on 5 November 2020 in England when only 4 per cent of students were recorded as absent for covid-19 related reasons.


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Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 19th November 2020

There are a number of reasons why a pupil might be absent from school and the rate of absence is likely to vary by phase of schools and throughout the year. In the 2018/19 academic year the overall absence rate was 4.7%. This includes authorised and unauthorised absences.

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