Question follow-through · 51238
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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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 May 2025
Question tabled
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.
13 May 2025
Target answer date
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19 May 2025
Answer published
The 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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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