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Children: Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department tracks the number of children whose education has been disrupted by long COVID.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department tracks the number of children whose education has been disrupted by long COVID.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The department does not hold data on the number of children absent specifically due to long COVID. Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 places a duty on maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units to make arrangements for supportin...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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