The DCSF believes local authorities would benefit from a more expansive definition, to help them fulfil their legal duty to track children not in mainstream education. The new definition is likely to be based around three categories: children not on a school roll; children who have been on the roll of a school, but have left for an unknown destination; and children on a school roll who never attend.
Each category will include a list of the types of children, who could be missing from education, including Travellers, young carers, runaways and children living in refuges.
There are no official statistics on children missing from education but a CYP Now survey last year found more than 20,000 children were missing in the 2006/07 school year (5-11 September 2007).
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