Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 68494

Pupils: Absenteeism

Tabled: 16 July 2025
Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Jess Asato

LabourLowestoft

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s statutory guidance entitled Children missing education - Statutory guidance for local authorities, updated August 2024, when she plans to update the guidance; and if she will

Answer

Stephen Morgan
The department conducted a call for evidence from 18 May to 20 July 2023 on ‘Improving support for children missing education’ to understand the sector’s current approach to identifying and supporting children missing education (CME), and to inform any ch...

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