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Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure children with high school absence rates are supported to increase their attendance in (a) the South East and (b) Slough constituency.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
4 Nov 2024
Answer
4 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure children with high school absence rates are supported to increase their attendance in (a) the South East and (b) Slough constituency.

  2. 4 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at Regional and Local Authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases: https://explore-e...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupils: Absenteeism

30 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional support she plans to provided to (a) parents and guardians and (b) children to help tackle the root causes of persistent school absences.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Mental Health Services

30 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what specialist mental health support she plans to provide to secondary schools to help tackle absences.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupils: Absenteeism

4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timeline is for the increase in the number of attendance mentors for schools.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Education: Data Processing

5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps they are taking to help increase productivity within their Department through the use of (a) artificial intelligence and (b) effective use of data.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Kinship Care: Finance

20 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the financial support available to kinship carers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Childcare: Employers' Contributions

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the rate paid to nursery providers for free hours childcare will increase proportionately to cover the increase in employer national insurance contributions.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Kinship Care: Finance

26 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2024 to Question 14130, whether the local authorities to take part in the kinship allowance trial have been selected.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Secondary Education: Slough

26 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average staff to student ratio was in secondary schools in Slough constituency in each year since 2015.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Higher Education: Science

27 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many university (a) biology, (b) chemistry and (c) physics departments (i) opened and (ii) closed in the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Education: Policy

28 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how their Department defines strategy.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Pupils: Attendance

3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking increase school attendance among children who are living in poverty.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Poverty

4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in relative poverty are not eligible for free school meals.