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Unauthorised Absence

Answer

The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream primary schools and maintained mainstream secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority are given in the following tables.

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream primary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
Local authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³
Barking and Dagenham	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.52	1.37	1.34	1.27	1.22
Barnet	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.56	0.65	0.74	0.54
Barnsley	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.77	0.75	0.53	0.63	0.78
Bath and North East Somerset	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.33	0.32	0.32	0.28	0.34
Bedfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.21	0.21	0.17	0.22	0.25
Bexley	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.36	0.35	0.33	0.44	0.54
Birmingham	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.67	0.65	0.64	0.64	0.74
Blackburn with Darwen	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.46	0.45	0.50	0.40	0.46
Blackpool	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.86	0.68	0.71	0.73	0.61
Bolton	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.37	0.33	0.33	0.37	0.51
Bournemouth	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.24	0.20	0.21	0.27	0.25
Bracknell Forest	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.22	0.15	0.16	0.17	0.23
Bradford	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.9	0.76	0.69	0.70	0.82	0.95
Brent	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.49	0.41	0.55	0.54	0.59
Brighton and Hove	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.54	0.55	0.51	0.59	0.48
Bristol, City of	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.92	0.93	0.89	0.90	0.91
Bromley	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.40	0.43	0.60	0.53	0.68
Buckinghamshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.25	0.27	0.24	0.28	0.27
Bury	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.28	0.25	0.21	0.22
Calderdale	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.25	0.31	0.30	0.38	0.30
Cambridgeshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.33	0.34	0.39	0.39	0.46
Camden	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.10	0.77	0.56	0.57	0.60
Cheshire	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.34	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.39
Cornwall	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.36	0.30	0.32	0.39	0.39
Coventry	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.29	0.22	0.31	0.26	0.28
Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.55	0.69	0.73	0.63	0.67
Cumbria	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.20	0.21	0.17	0.16	0.15
Darlington	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.29	0.18	0.33	0.33	0.39
Derby City	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.76	0.61	0.60	0.67	0.75
Derbyshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.43	0.41	0.36	0.38	0.36
Devon	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.26	0.25	0.26	0.24	0.24
Doncaster	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.50	0.40	0.31	0.32	0.43
Dorset	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.25	0.25	0.24	0.29
Dudley	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.32	0.37	0.28	0.34	0.39
Durham	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.14	0.10	0.12	0.15	0.15
Ealing	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.25	0.22	0.27	0.26	0.33
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.19	0.19	0.13	0.12	0.12
East Sussex	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.37	0.41	0.53	0.77	0.71
Enfield	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.11	1.11	0.81	0.75	0.71
Essex	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.35	0.37	0.37	0.33	0.38
Gateshead	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.35	0.26	0.27	0.23	0.22
Gloucestershire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.24	0.24	0.23	0.26	0.24
Greenwich	1.7	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.38	1.45	1.24	1.16	1.33
Hackney	1.3	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.36	1.36	1.16	1.04	1.13
Halton	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.57	0.46	0.44	0.47	0.53
Hammersmith and Fulham	1.3	1.4	1.2	0.9	0.61	0.76	0.70	0.62	0.80
Hampshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.36	0.33	0.30	0.29	0.29
Haringey	1.4	1.4	2.0	1.7	1.62	1.39	1.13	1.21	1.09
Harrow	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.32	0.21	0.17	0.14	0.17
Hartlepool	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.76	0.80	0.60	0.51	0.51
Havering	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.21	0.24	0.22	0.27	0.32
Herefordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.18	0.19	0.20	0.22	0.25
Hertfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.37	0.34	0.32	0.33	0.35
Hillingdon	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.71	0.67	0.58	0.55	0.59
Hounslow	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.03	1.19	1.16	1.08	1.10
Isle of Wight	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.20	0.12	0.10	0.12	0.17
Isles of Scilly	0.1	0.0	0.2	—	—	0.70	0.42	0.87	0.21
Islington	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.20	1.26	0.96	0.81	0.72
Kensington and Chelsea	1.4	1.3	0.9	1.1	0.89	0.59	0.40	0.35	0.46
Kent	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.43	0.47
Kingston upon Hull, City of	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.68	0.65	0.55	0.57	0.63
Kingston upon Thames	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.25	0.22	0.23	0.29	0.24
Kirklees	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.48	0.41	0.40	0.35	0.35
Knowsley	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.69	0.64	0.75	0.66	0.78
Lambeth	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.07	1.07	0.97	1.01	0.98
Lancashire	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.34	0.31	0.32	0.34	0.35
Leeds	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.47	0.43	0.39	0.39	0.44
Leicester City	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.64	0.71	0.71	0.70	0.74
Leicestershire	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.20	0.21
Lewisham	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.35	1.06	0.97	1.09	1.09
Lincolnshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.33	0.28	0.29	0.26	0.24
Liverpool	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.53	0.52	0.48	0.45	0.48
London, City of	1.9	1.6	1.9	0.9	0.32	0.00	0.29	0.03	0.03
Luton	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.58	0.53	0.50	0.55	0.67
Manchester	1.2	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.88	0.83	0.85	0.93	1.05
Medway	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.36	0.30	0.31	0.37	0.35
Merton	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.38	0.35	0.33	0.39	0.27
Middlesbrough	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.35	0.37	0.42	0.49	0.49
Milton Keynes	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.35	0.29	0.22	0.24	0.25
Newcastle upon Tyne	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.51	0.49	0.38	0.41	0.47
Newham	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.53	1.04	0.71	0.76	0.91
Norfolk	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.46	0.45	0.41	0.42	0.41
North East Lincolnshire	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.19	0.23	0.23	0.24	0.22
North Lincolnshire	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.28	0.22	0.22	0.31	0.33
North Somerset	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.23	0.31	0.26	0.28	0.27
North Tyneside	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.11	0.12	0.17	0.18	0.20
North Yorkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.16	0.17	0.18	0.22
Northamptonshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.39	0.38	0.42	0.44
Northumberland	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.21	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.26
Nottingham City	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.75	0.70	0.62	0.68	0.68
Nottinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.39	0.35	0.36	0.34
Oldham	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.46	0.41	0.39	0.40
Oxfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.32	0.29	0.26	0.30	0.28
Peterborough City	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.50	0.51	0.49	0.47	0.51
Plymouth	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.29	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.29
Poole	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.50	0.47	0.46	0.42	0.49
Portsmouth	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.74	0.82	0.73	0.75	0.69
Reading	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.56	0.43	0.46	0.51	0.53
Redbridge	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.80	0.93
Redcar and Cleveland	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.22	0.25	0.25	0.30	0.32
Richmond upon Thames	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.27	0.32	0.35	0.44	0.53
Rochdale	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.49	0.57	0.70	0.75	0.70
Rotherham	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.55	0.46	0.40	0.45	0.66
Rutland	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.19	0.15	0.07	0.05	0.05
Salford	1.1	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.51	0.43	0.59	0.66	0.71
Sandwell	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.47	0.48	0.51	0.64
Sefton	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.23	0.22	0.20	0.28	0.40
Sheffield	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.77	0.66	0.64	0.69	0.71
Shropshire	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.17
Slough	0.6	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.70	0.75	0.79	0.87	1.11
Solihull	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.24	0.31	0.36	0.43	0.46
Somerset	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.32	0.47
South Gloucestershire	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.29	0.27	0.21	0.24	0.23
South Tyneside	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.11	0.15	0.20	0.19	0.22
Southampton	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.9	0.77	0.60	0.66	0.75	0.74
Southend-on-Sea	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.67	0.60	0.40	0.43	0.37
Southwark	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.78	1.74	1.61	1.34	1.25
St. Helens	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.39	0.35	0.33	0.39	0.46
Staffordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.24	0.22	0.19	0.19	0.22
Stockport	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.39	0.31	0.30	0.27	0.29
Stockton on Tees	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.14	0.21	0.22	0.29	0.35
Stoke on Trent	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.69	0.74	0.67	0.67	0.77
Suffolk	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.26	0.25	0.27	0.31	0.33
Sunderland	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.16	0.18	0.21	0.23	0.29
Surrey	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.29	0.25	0.28	0.28
Sutton	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.41	0.26	0.31	0.37	0.51
Swindon	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.23	0.20	0.23	0.30	0.39
Tameside	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.24	0.36	0.32	0.27	0.33
Telford and Wrekin	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.28	0.27	0.29	0.22	0.23
Thurrock	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.54	0.53	0.57	0.68	0.66
Torbay	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.36	0.34	0.35	0.29	0.30
Tower Hamlets	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.38	1.20	1.19	1.22	1.27
Trafford	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.19	0.12
Wakefield	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.51	0.55	0.55	0.53	0.50
Walsall	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.47	0.47	0.40	0.39	0.44
Waltham Forest	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.53	0.54	0.68	0.53	0.63
Wandsworth	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.56	0.58	0.57	0.57	0.64
Warrington	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.33	0.47	0.52	0.67
Warwickshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.16	0.20	0.19	0.16	0.18
West Berkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.36	0.30	0.31	0.34	0.30
West Sussex	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.26	0.25	0.21	0.23	0.24
Westminster, City of	1.1	1.4	0.9	0.9	0.77	0.62	0.51	0.68	0.87
Wigan	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.25	0.25	0.24	0.28	0.31
Wiltshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.30	0.30	0.31	0.30	0.31
Windsor and Maidenhead	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.28	0.34	0.40	0.37	0.29
Wirral	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.39	0.41	0.30	0.27	0.26
Wokingham	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.21	0.20	0.21	0.25	0.26
Wolverhampton	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.44	0.49	0.51	0.51	0.56
Worcestershire	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.17	0.19	0.23	0.22	0.27
York, City of	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.41	0.45	0.32	0.30	0.38

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
Local authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³
Barking and Dagenham	2.0	2.0	1.7	2.0	2.04	1.91	1.93	2.00	1.57
Barnet	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.3	0.95	0.97	1.07	1.01	0.90
Barnsley	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.3	1.56	1.38	1.35	1.50	1.99
Bath and North East Somerset	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.08	0.83	0.83	0.95	0.98
Bedfordshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.41	0.42	0.42	0.68	0.50
Bexley	0.5	0.6	1.1	1.1	1.19	0.75	1.11	0.71	1.12
Birmingham	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.62	1.50	1.59	1.42	1.39
Blackburn with Darwen	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.34	1.26	1.13	1.03	1.30
Blackpool	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.3	1.33	1.37	1.88	1.70	1.91
Bolton	1.8	1.7	1.2	1.2	1.19	1.14	1.37	1.85	1.59
Bournemouth	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.55	0.59	0.66	1.30	0.59
Bracknell Forest	0.5	1.1	0.9	1.2	0.90	0.87	0.70	0.82	1.15
Bradford	2.0	2.2	2.0	2.6	2.42	2.63	2.83	2.93	2.63
Brent	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.73	0.86	0.56	1.05	0.67
Brighton and Hove	1.1	0.9	1.1	1.4	1.18	1.47	1.50	1.21	1.32
Bristol, City of	1.6	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.34	2.05	2.23	2.52	2.41
Bromley	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.10	1.09	1.00	1.13	1.16
Buckinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.54	0.65	0.70	0.74	0.87
Bury	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.67	0.70	0.49	0.50	0.68
Calderdale	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.75	0.77	0.61	0.72	1.05
Cambridgeshire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.77	0.81	0.80	1.04	1.02
Camden	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.41	1.58	1.17	1.38	2.25
Cheshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.85	0.87	0.88	1.19	1.04
Cornwall	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.40	0.50	0.79	0.69	0.83
Coventry	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.1	0.95	1.00	0.81	0.96	0.94
Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.68	1.10	1.18	1.39	1.40
Cumbria	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.75	0.82	0.94	0.97	0.94
Darlington	1.6	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.13	1.07	1.05	1.84	2.23
Derby City	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.1	1.46	125	1.71	1.79	1.66
Derbyshire	1.1	1,0	0.9	1.0	0.96	0.96	0.98	1.07	1.03
Devon	0.7	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.05	1.03	1.36	1.30	1.30
Doncaster	2.1	2.2	2.3	1.8	1.54	1.58	1.59	1.77	1.74
Dorset	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.57	0.48	0.46	0.54	0.61
Dudley	0.6	0.7	.0.7	0.6	0.69	0.86	1.00	1.25	1.51
Durham	1.5	1.3	1.1	0.8	0.73	0.69	0.68	0.8',	0.77
Ealing	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.02	0.87	0.70	0.74	0.75
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.89	0.69	0.67	0.56	0.54
East Sussex	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.41	1.35	1.41	1.34	1.35
Enfield	1.0	1.4	1.7	1.8	1.92	1.85	1.49	1.85	1.63
Essex	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.90	0.84	1.00	1.09	1.09
Gateshead	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.3	0.96	0.97	0.90	0.91	0.99
Gloucestershire	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.49	0.51	0.56	0.83	0.90
Greenwich	2.4	2.2	1.9	2.3	2.49	2.37	2.82	2.69	2.85
Hackney	2.2	2.6	2.2	3.1	2.57	2.07	1.86	1.88	1.24
Halton	1.2	1.5	1.6	2.0	2.48	2.24	2.71	2.74	1.87
Hammersmith and Fulham	2.8	2.6	2.2	2.0	1.76	1.69	1.72	1.66	1.12
Hampshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.13	1.07	1.06	1.23	1.20
Haringey	1.9	2.1	2.3	1.9	2.43	2.32	1.84	1.86	1.88
Harrow	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.69	0.52	0.48	0.51	0.45
Hartlepool	2.6	2.0	1.6	1.9	1.63	1.69	1.13	0.98	0.87
Havering	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.60	0.56	0.61	0.64	0.83
Herefordshire	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.81	0.80	0.99	1.05	1.38
Hertfordshire	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.91	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.77
Hillingdon	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.49	1.63	1.43	1.58	1.75
Hounslow	1.0	1.2	0.9	1.0	1.05	1.02	1.15	1.09	1.31
Isle of Wight	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.67	0.85	0.78	1.34	1.20
Isles of Scilly	0.4	1.0	0.1	—	—	—	—	—	—
Islington	2.7	2.6	2.0	2.0	1.65	1.51	1.41	1.72	1.69
Kensington and Chelsea	2.4	2.4	1.8	2.4	1.91	1.66	1.01	0.59	0.66
Kent	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.74	0.67	0.82	1.14	1.30
Kingston upon Hull, City of	3.7	3.3	2.9	2.5	2.67	2.44	2.43	2.78	2.76
Kingston upon Thames	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.57	0.51	0.33	0.61	0.58
Kirklees	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.13	1.19	1.09	1.06	1.01
Knowsley	3.1	2.8	3.1	3.1	3.06	2.84	2.10	2.19	2.19
Lambeth	1.5	0.9	1.0	1.2	0.99	0.60	0.50	0.58	0.57
Lancashire	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.82	0.82	0.88	0.93	0.95
Leeds	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.85	1.92	2.00	1.89	1.88
Leicester City	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.2	2.31	2.59	3.04	2.86	2.25
Leicestershire	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.28	1.19	1.18	1.36	1.33
Lewisham	2.6	2.5	2.9	3.5	2.68	2.38	2.49	1.91	1.84
Lincolnshire	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.73	0.78	0.83	0.85	0.69
Liverpool	2.1	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.77	1.68	1.91	2.00	1.72
London, City of	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Luton	0.9	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.63	0.79	0.74	0.85	0.91
Manchester	2.6	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.70	1.68	2.18	2.80	2.89
Medway	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.58	0.77	0.60	1.26	1.26
Merton	2.5	2.2	1.7	1.5	1.20	1.34	1.34	1.62	1.01
Middlesbrough	1.7	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.02	1.11	1.08	1.56	1.30
Milton Keynes	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.51	0.71	0.76	1.38	1.09
Newcastle upon Tyne	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.2	1.69	1.27	0.96	1.03	1.15
Newham	3.2	3.2	2.7	2.3	2.12	1.60	1.23	1.09	0.86
Norfolk	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.07	1.02	1.02	1.08	1.24
North East Lincolnshire	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.5	1.53	1.72	1.80	1.69	1.41
North Lincolnshire	1.2	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.34	0.91	0.89	0.89	0.92
North Somerset	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.8	1.05	1.13	1.03	0.79	1.05
North Tyneside	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.67	0.86	1.26	1.07	1.03
North Yorkshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.53	0.57	0.57	0.74	0.65
Northamptonshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.00	1.08	1.16	1.35	1.38
Northumberland	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.36	0.34	0.41	0.50	0.60
Nottingham City	3.9	3.0	2.9	3.1	3.08	2.37	2.26	2.07	2.59
Nottinghamshire	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.30	1.49	1.75	1.94	1.68
Oldham	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.1	1.38	1.55	1.24	1.16	1.23
Oxfordshire	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.32	1.09	1.19	1.01	0.88
Peterborough City	1.2	1.2	0.9	1.2	1.22	0.89	1.17	1.25	1.19
Plymouth	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.56	0.59	0.72	0.92	0.88
Poole	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.84	0.94	1.06	1.69	1.75
Portsmouth	1.9	1.4	1.8	1.8	1.63	1.42	1.70	1.84	1.84
Reading	1.4	1.2	0.8	1.1	1.21	1.99	2.13	1.40	1.18
Redbridge	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.73	0.69	0.94	0.93	0.92
Redcar and Cleveland	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.4	1.10	0.97	1.03	1.41	1.23
Richmond upon Thames	1.0	1.5	1.9	2.5	2.54	2.10	1.99	2.51	2.34
Rochdale	1.9	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.59	1.41	1.62	1.49	1.52
Rotherham	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.58	1.27	1.60	1.66	2.07
Rutland	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.48	0.49	0.41	0.47	0.38
Salford	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.57	2.19	2.67	2.78	2.11
Sandwell	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.1	1.71	1.56	1.94	1.82	2.12
Sefton	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.69	0.67	0.72	0.76	0.75
Sheffield	2.2	1.9	1.8	2.1	2.17	2.02	2.03	2.34	1.98
Shropshire	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.56	0.46	0.45	0.57	0.66
Slough	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.22	1.46	1.55	1.28	0.81
Solihull	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.89	0.82	0.62	0.89	0.84
Somerset	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.63	0.63	0.82	1.01	1.16
South Gloucestershire	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.2	0.96	1.25	1.09	0.90	0.86
South Tyneside	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.62	0.69	1.70	0.66	0.73
Southampton	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.31	1.18	1.19	1.87	1.77
Southend-on-Sea	1.4	1.2	1.4	1.9	1.42	1.34	1.78	1.79	1.62
Southwark	2.6	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.74	1.79	1.59	1.69	2.21
St Helens	0.5	0.6	1.0	0.9	0.91	1.13	1.07	1.55	1.42
Staffordshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.55	0.66	0.63	0.62	0.64
Stockport	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.95	0.82	0.94	0.99	1.30
Stockton on Tees	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.52	0.72	0.87	0.78	1.02
Stoke on Trent	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.64	1.50	1.50	2.13	1.99
Suffolk	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.89	1.08	1.32	1.29	1.37
Sunderland	1.2	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.99	0.90	1.19	1.37	0.98
Surrey	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.0	0.97	0.98	1.09	1.19	1.19
Sutton	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.89	0.66	0.69	0.67	0.78
Swindon	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.76	0.67	1.07	0.89	0.88
Tameside	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.04	0.43	0.46	0.89	1.09
Telford and Wrekin	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.63	0.51	0.61	0.95	1.06
Thurrock	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.1	0.93	1.62	1.25	1.24	1.62
Torbay	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.2	1.26	1.49	1.47	1.58	1.85
Tower Hamlets	2.8	2.2	2.5	2.6	2.41	2.03	1.97	2.42	2.05
Trafford	0.7	1.1	0.7	0.8	0.73	0.60	0.68	0.70	0.61
Wakefield	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.9	0.84	1.00	0.94	1.04	0.82
Walsall	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.82	0.86	1.09	1.14	1.27
Waltham Forest	2.3	1.8	1.4	2.0	1.72	1.37	1.57	1.74	1.37
Wandsworth	1.7	1.2	0.8	0.7	1.34	1.09	0.82	1.11	1.22
Warrington	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.65	0.81	0.93	1.10
Warwickshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.66	0.76	0.75	0.95	0.94
West Berkshire	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.58	0.61	0.86	0.89	0.86
West Sussex	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.88	0.75	0.73	0.92	0.76
Westminster, City of	3.2	3.9	3.1	2.4	1.76	1.59	1.95	1.77	1.98
Wigan	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.67	0.60	0.60	0.86	1.18
Wiltshire	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.65	0.60	0.73	0.88	1.01
Windsor & Maidenhead	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.65	0.72	0.75	1.00	0.84
Wirral	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.48	0.54	0.61	0.54	0.72
Wokingham	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.96	0.62	0.80	1.16	0.88
Wolverhampton	1.5	1.4	1.3	1,2	1.06	1.20	1.13	1.18	1.05
Worcestershire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.61	0.76	0.60	0.79	0.93
York, City of	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.1	1.02	1.14	105	1.04	1.13
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. ² Figures are only available to 1 decimal place prior to 2001-02. ³ Figures for 2005-06 are provisional.

Unauthorised absence is absence without leave from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences, such as lateness, holidays during term time not authorised by the school, absence where reason is not yet established and truancy.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

93549; 450 c1578-88W;450 c1584-94W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Truancy

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