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Labour urged to ‘focus’ on pupil absence as report finds as much as 300,000 kids lacking from college final 12 months

By Editorial Board Published December 9, 2024 3 Min Read
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Labour urged to ‘focus’ on pupil absence as report finds as much as 300,000 kids lacking from college final 12 months

A Tory frontbencher is urging the federal government to “focus” on pupil absence after a report discovered as many as 300,000 kids had been lacking from training in England final 12 months.

Figures from the Schooling Coverage Institute (EPI) – which evaluate GP registrations with college enrolment knowledge – mark a 40% improve in unaccounted absences since 2017.

Greater than 50,000 college students had been additionally discovered to have left the state training system by 12 months 11, with no clear information explaining their exits.

Reacting to this, shadow training secretary Laura Trott has urged the federal government to shift its focus to pupil absence.

“We must get children back to the classroom.”

The DfE pointed to plans to “introduce children not in school registers”.

These shall be launched alongside “new protections for children being home educated when they are subject to a children’s social care investigation, and a single child identifier so children can get the right support from education, health and care services”.

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Shadow training secretary Laura Trott within the Commons. Pic: PA

A supply additionally questioned the 300,000 estimate given by the EPI, claiming it’s “not adjusted for the known limitations in data quality”.

They mentioned there’s a recognized discrepancy between the “estimated size of the England population and the number of people registered at GP practices”.

Knowledge printed by the DfE means that 117,000 kids had been lacking training at any time within the 2023 to 2024 tutorial 12 months. This ran from September 2023 to July 2024.

A DfE spokesperson mentioned: “Our mission is to break down the barriers to opportunity that are holding young people back, making sure they have the support and education they deserve, and to tackle the pattern of children falling through the cracks.”

Affiliate director at EPI Whitney Crenna-Jennings mentioned: “Many thousands of children are missing or go missing from education in England – this is a critical issue that demands our attention.”

The info reveals that dropouts peak in 12 months 10, simply earlier than college students take their GCSEs, making up a couple of fifth of all exits.

The report additionally states that weak teams, significantly youngsters, are disproportionately affected.

The EPI says colleges ought to doc causes for de-registering college students to enhance oversight and forestall unlawful exclusions.

It additionally recommends that there’s a necessary register by integrating knowledge from training, well being and different administrative knowledge sources.

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