Nearly 50% of children in need were persistently absent from school in 2023/2024
Nearly half of children in need were persistently absent from school in 2023/2024. This is a rate of 44%, considerably higher than the 30% seen in 2020/2021, but slightly below that in 2022/2023, at 44.4%. The Department for Education has released a report on outcomes for children in need in England. A ‘Child in need’…