Headlines, PublicNet: 17 October, 2013
The number of schoolchildren regularly missing school has fallen by almost 140,000 over the past 2 years.
Figures from the Department for Education show that in the first two terms of the current academic year 139,750 fewer children missed 15% or more of school compared to two years ago. This is equivalent to missing one-and-a-half years of a whole school career. The actual number of absences was down from 450,330 in the 2010-to-2011 academic year to 310,580 in the academic current year.