The number of children missing at least half of school is also greater than previously thought.
Almost 1.8 million children missed at least 10% of school in the autumn term in England, according to new estimates.
It also found no reliable figures for children who never go to school at all, raising the prospects of a small, but vulnerable group of children who are entirely out of sight, and thus impossible for the authorities to keep safe."I'm worried about children missing education but also safeguarding and helping those who most need to be back at school to be back.
His school arranged for him to join a programme for pupils with low attendance at The Hive youth zone in Wirral, where he now has one-to-one tutoring. The reasons more teenagers are not attending are varied, but a loss of social and academic confidence is visible after the disruption of recent years. They have a dedicated family liaison officer who gets to know parents or carers and work with them to find out what the barriers are to teenagers returning."There are some that have got out of the habit of coming to school, and some have extra social needs so have found it difficult to make that leap to come back to school.
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