Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 51238
Schools: Attendance
Tabled: 9 May 2025
Answered: 19 May 2025
Question
Satvir Kaur
Labour — Southampton Test
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the level of emotional based school avoidance in (a) Southampton Test constituency and (b) England.
Answer
Stephen MorganThe absence crisis is one of the government's most challenging inheritances. By working alongside school staff and parents, the department is getting absence moving in the right direction with children attending over 3 million more days of school this yea...
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