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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schoolchildren played truant in schools in East Sussex in each of the past five years; and how many days in total were lost through truancy in the county in each of those years. [193703] Mr. Stephen Twigg: [holding answer 25 October 2004]: The available published information is as follows: Number of pupils that missed at least a half day session1 due to unauthorised absence in schools in East Sussex LEA _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Academic Year (September-May) Primary Schools Secondary Schools 2000 5,491 5,310 2001 5,832 6,310 2002 5,246 7,754 2003 6,089 8,275 2004 7,942 9,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of pupils that missed at least a half day session1 due to authorised absence in schools in East Sussex LEA _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Academic Year (September-May) Primary Schools Secondary Schools 2000 31,510 23,202 2001 32,054 25,111 2002 31,761 24,976 2003 31,142 24,990 2004 30,131 23,952 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of sessions1 missed due to unauthorised absence in maintained schools in East Sussex _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Academic Year (September-May) Primary Schools Secondary Schools 2000 44,513 87,624 2001 47,354 91,736 2002 37,154 111,064 2003 40,528 107,476 2004 53,048 112,206 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of sessions1 missed due to authorised absence in maintained schools in East Sussex _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Academic Year (September-May) Primary Schools Secondary Schools 2000 542,361 578,089 2001 579,820 623,361 2002 578,403 631,515 2003 529,910 564,304 2004 465,785 510,926 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of pupils of compulsory school age in East Sussex _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Academic Year (September-May) Primary Schools Secondary Schools 2000 34,512 25,272 2001 34,776 26,154 2002 34,068 26,689 2003 33,600 27,312 2004 33,069 25,543 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 A session equates to half a day.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c167-8W; 193703

Session

2003-04

Subjects

East Sussex Primary education Secondary education Truancy

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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