Department of Education publishes 'extraordinarily high' absence figures for schools
October 19, 2023
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as posted by the channelThe Department of Education in England have released their absence figures for the spring and autumn term of 2021 and 2022.
Sky's people and politics correspondent Nick Martin says "at the outset, they are reducing ever so slightly" but the numbers are still "extraordinarily high".
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