School attendance continues to be a problem as the UK emerges from the pandemic with most schools in England reporting higher than average absences among pupils.
Council data supplied to the children’s commissioner for England recently showed that 20 per cent of pupils who missed lessons are persistently absent from school and 1.5 per cent “severely absent”.
Some of this is directly related to Covid-19 and children testing positive while some absences are an indirect result of the crisis and linked to anxiety among pupils and parents or additional strains on families.
Schools are also facing new challenges such as families misunderstanding the rules around self-isolation, taking holidays now they can, and children – who have been learning from home – feeling disconnected from school.
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