Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 46022

Pupils: Cancer

Tabled: 17 April 2025

Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of provisions within (a) the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and (b) other relevant legislation intended to promote school attendance on chi

Answer

Catherine McKinnell

If a child is too unwell to attend school, local authorities have a duty under section 19 of the Children's Act 1996 to provide suitable and (normally) full-time education for children of compulsory school age who, because of exclusion, illness or other r...

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