Analysis by the Children's Commissioner for England found that last year 98,799 children in England left without reaching Level 2 attainment, representing 18 per cent of all pupils, and a rise of 24 per cent in the last three years.
Meanwhile, more than one in three children (37 per cent) receiving free school meals - a total of 28,225 children - were found to have left without any substantive qualifications. The analysis found that since 2015, the rate of children receiving free school meals leaving education without Level 2 attainment has risen at almost three times the rate of their better-off peers.
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