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Special Educational Needs: Truancy

Answer

The available information is shown in the tables.Data on pupil characteristics linked to absence was collected in the School Census for the first time in 2005/06, but was collected from secondary schools only. In 2006/07 data were also collected from primary and special schools.

Proportion of sessions of unauthorised absence by status of special educational need of pupil¹ 2005/06 to 2007/08
Percentage
	2005/06
	Primary²	Secondary²,³	Special4	All schools³,4
SEN status of pupils:
No identified SEN	5—	59.8	5—	5—
SEN no statement	5—	33.9	5—	5—
Statement of SEN	5—	4.2	5—	5—
SEN status not provided	5—	2.2	5—	5—
Total	5—	100.0	5—	5—

	2006/07
	Primary²	Secondary²,³	Special4	All schools³,4
SEN status of pupils:
No identified SEN	58.3	57.4	0.1	56.4
SEN no statement	35.6	36.4	3.1	35.4
Statement of SEN	2.4	3.9	94.9	5.5
SEN status not provided	3.7	2.3	1.9	2.7
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Percentage
	2007/08
	Primary²	Secondary²,³	Special4	All schools³,4
SEN status of pupils:
No identified SEN	58.3	54.7	0.5	54.5
SEN no statement	35.8	39.4	4.8	37.5
Statement of SEN	2.1	3.6	92.4	5.2
SEN status not provided	3.7	2.4	2.3	2.8
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
¹ Number of sessions of unauthorised absence for pupils within each status of special educational need and by phase as a proportion of the total number of sessions of unauthorised absence for all pupils in each phase. ² Includes middle schools as deemed. ³ Includes maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies (including all-through academies). 4 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. 5 Not available. Source: School Census.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

491 c906-8W; 266445

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Special educational needs Truancy

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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