Young people missing out on education Numbers of young people missing from school registers Source: The Bow Group
A report published this week claims about 100,000 young people across England and Wales have dropped out of education.
The study, from Conservative think-tank The Bow Group, says young people are falling off school rolls, unnoticed by politicians or wider society.
In Wasted Education, the authors report that 70,000 young people who were scheduled to turn up for GCSE exams last year didn't show. Another 15,000 are not registered at a school.
Home education is believed to account for only a small proportion of these.
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