Pupils: Absenteeism

(asked on 20th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were absent from school in the 2018-19 academic year due to mental health problems.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th May 2019

The information requested is not held centrally.

The Department published data on absence due to illness, but not on type of illness, in table 2 of the annual “Pupil absence in schools in England” statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england-2017-to-2018.​

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