'I'm worried about children missing education but also safeguarding and helping those who most need to be back at school to be back.'
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.
The Department for Education said it had launched a pilot programme to improve the quality of school attendance data."I started saying 'I'm going to school' and would just go somewhere else for a few hours. Then when lockdown came I did no work and I got even further behind than I was already.Blake lost confidence and found it harder and harder to return to lessons.
"It's become much worse, young people got used to not going to school, and if they were having a bad experience before the pandemic, their anxieties rise being forced back into school." That's the case at St Margaret's Church of England Academy in Liverpool, where Stephen Brierley is the headteacher.
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