Question follow-through · 11894
Pupils: Absenteeism
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
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.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
Tackling school absence is at the heart of the department’s mission to break down the barriers to opportunity. However, 20.7% of children remain persistently absent, missing 10% or more of lessons, and we recognise that supporting parents, guardians and c...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pupils: Absenteeism
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Department for Education: Data Processing
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Department for Education: Policy
28 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how their Department defines strategy.
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.
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.
Unemployment: Slough
12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of young people out of (a) work, (b) education and (c) training in Slough.
Disadvantaged
13 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle the impact of socio-economic disadvantage on future earnings.