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To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of pupils recorded as having days of unauthorised absence in secondary schools with (a) fewer than 800 pupils, (b) 800 to 1,000 pupils and (c) more than 1,000 pupils in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of pupils recorded as having days of unauthorised absence in secondary schools with (a) fewer than 800 pupils, (b) 800 to 1,000 pupils and (c) more than 1,000 pupils in each year...
Asked by
Charlotte Leslie
(Conservative)
Answered by
Nick Gibb
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
13 October 2010
For answer on
18 October 2010
Answered on
2 November 2010
The requested information for 2005/06 and 2008/09 is shown in the table.Pupil absence has been collected at school level in secondary schools since 2005/06. Information relating to the number of pupils with unauthorised absence is not available prior to this date.To provide data for further years would incur disproportionate cost.
| State-funded secondary schools¹, ²: Number and proportion of enrolments³ with unauthorised absence by size of school4. In 2005/06 and 2008/09. In England | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schools with fewer than 800 pupils4 | Schools with 800 to 1,000 pupils4 | Schools with over 1,000 pupils4 | |||||||
| Number of enrolments with unauthorised absence | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments with unauthorised absence | Number of enrolments with unauthorised absence | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments with unauthorised absence | Number of enrolments with unauthorised absence | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments with unauthorised absence | |
| 2005/06 | 196,310 | 626,330 | 31.34 | 198,450 | 618,020 | 32.11 | 589,500 | 1,811,590 | 32.54 |
| 2008/09 | 222,340 | 646,730 | 34.38 | 219,890 | 610,080 | 36.04 | 578,270 | 1,697,520 | 34.07 |
| ¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. | |||||||||
| ² Includes city technology colleges and academies. | |||||||||
| ³ Number of pupil enrolments in schools. Includes pupils on the school roll for at least one session who are aged between 5 and 15, excluding boarders. Some pupils may be counted more than once (if they moved schools during the school year or are registered in more than one school). | |||||||||
| 4 Headcount of solely registered pupils taken from the January census. Schools which were not open at the January census have been excluded from the analysis. | |||||||||
| Note: | |||||||||
| Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. | |||||||||
| Source: | |||||||||
| School Census |
Subjects
Absenteeism; Pupils; Truancy
Date
2 November 2010
Reference
17891; 517 c731-4W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils were persistent absentees in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils were persistent absentees in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Asked by
Grant Shapps
(Conservative)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
23 March 2010
For answer on
25 March 2010
Answered on
7 April 2010
Attendance data was collected at individual pupil level for the first time in 2005/06 from secondary schools only. Information on persistent absentees in secondary schools in 2005/06 at local authority level has been placed in the Library.Information on persistent absentees in primary, secondary and special schools is available from 2006/07 onwards. Information at local authority level for 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09, and parliamentary constituency level for 2007/08 and 2008/09 has been placed in the Library. To provide further information would incur disproportionate cost.
Subjects
Truancy
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1465W; 324538
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the (a) rate of unauthorised absence and (b) number of day pupils of compulsory age was in each (i) local authority area and (ii) constituency in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the (a) rate of unauthorised absence and (b) number of day pupils of compulsory age was in each (i) local authority area and (ii) constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Asked by
Grant Shapps
(Conservative)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
23 March 2010
For answer on
25 March 2010
Answered on
7 April 2010
The available information for the years 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2003/04, 2007/08, and 2008/09 has been placed in the Libraries. To provide further information would incur disproportionate cost.
Subjects
Truancy
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1465W; 324539
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Deposited papers
Author
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Committed on
7 April 2010
Received on
13 April 2010
Subjects
Constituencies; Local government; Pupils; Schools; Secondary education; Truancy
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
DEP2010-1192
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Deposited papers
Author
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Committed on
7 April 2010
Received on
9 April 2010
Subjects
Constituencies; Local government; Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
DEP2010-1181
House
House of Commons
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that Answer. At the same time, I should like her to consider that some 67,000 children miss school every day. Is it not high time that we got bureaucracy off the backs of schools and gave head teachers and teachers full authority locally to tackle truancy, not "unauthorised absence"?
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that Answer. At the same time, I should like her to consider that some 67,000 children miss school every day. Is it not high time that we got bureaucracy off the backs of schools and gave head teachers and teachers full authority locally to tackle truancy, not "unauthorised absence"?
Asked by
Lord Luke
(Conservative)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
My Lords, the important thing is to get children and young people attending school. That is why this Government have focused on driving up attendance. That means encouraging parents not to take holidays during term time and making sure that any kind of absence that is not absolutely necessary is not authorised by schools. That is why I am particularly proud that we can say now that attendance at schools is at its highest rate since records began.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1358
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the important thing is to get children and young people attending school. That is why this Government have focused on driving up attendance. That means encouraging parents not to take holidays during term time and making sure that any kind of absence that is not absolutely necessary is not authorised by schools. That is why I am particularly proud that we can say now that attendance at schools is at its highest rate since records began.
My Lords, the important thing is to get children and young people attending school. That is why this Government have focused on driving up attendance. That means encouraging parents not to take holidays during term time and making sure that any kind of absence that is not absolutely necessary is not authorised by schools. That is why I am particularly proud that we can say now that attendance at schools is at its highest rate since records began.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Luke
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that Answer. At the same time, I should like her to consider that some 67,000 children miss school every day. Is it not high time that we got bureaucracy off the backs of schools and gave head teachers and teachers full authority locally to tackle truancy, not "unauthorised absence"?
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1358
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
I agree, and that is why we have focused relentlessly on making sure that parents fulfil their legal obligation to make sure that they get children into school. That is also why we have ensured that there are parenting contracts and processes in place to make sure that where parents do not engage or do not know where their children are, they do their bit, get their kids to school and the system supports them to do that.
I agree, and that is why we have focused relentlessly on making sure that parents fulfil their legal obligation to make sure that they get children into school. That is also why we have ensured that there are parenting contracts and processes in place to make sure that where parents do not engage or do not know where their children are, they do their bit, get their kids to school and the system supports them to do that.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Elton
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Can the Minister point out the necessity, addressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, of disaggregating these figures, so that we know why children are away? Some children need to be addressed themselves and others need to be addressed through their parents. It really is no good getting this the wrong way round.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1360
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, in drawing on my experience of some 20 years as chairman of a juvenile court, does the Minister agree that early truancy is often a sign of other serious child or family behavioural problems? Given that—I refer specifically to truancy—can the Minister give your Lordships the national truancy figures for each of the past five years? If, as I suspect, these are not available, can she please ask that any future Government will make them available so that this House can do its job of scrutiny in keeping government policies and their effectiveness under review?
My Lords, in drawing on my experience of some 20 years as chairman of a juvenile court, does the Minister agree that early truancy is often a sign of other serious child or family behavioural problems? Given that—I refer specifically to truancy—can the Minister give your Lordships the national truancy figures for each of the past five years? If, as I suspect, these are not available, can she please ask that any future Government will make them available so that this House can do its job of scrutiny in keeping government policies and their effectiveness under review?
Asked by
Baroness Howe of Idlicote
(Crossbench)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
I understand the noble Baroness’s frustration in wanting to look specifically at truancy. The issue here is: does it matter whether a parent, who has absolute responsibility for making sure that their child is in school, knows that their child is bunking off? We have to make sure that all unauthorised absence, whether it is in the knowledge of the parent or not, is tackled. We need to make sure that children are in school—that is why we have to focus on getting attendance up—and we need parents to play their role in that. That is why we have worked relentlessly throughout the system to get parents to take their responsibility to get children in school.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1359
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, does my noble friend accept that some children are absent from school because of difficulties in the school, such as bullying? Can she say what strategies are in place to combat bullying in both primary and secondary school?
My Lords, does my noble friend accept that some children are absent from school because of difficulties in the school, such as bullying? Can she say what strategies are in place to combat bullying in both primary and secondary school?
Asked by
Baroness Massey of Darwen
(Labour)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
The noble Baroness raises a very important point: if a young person is persistently missing school we have to look at the underlying reasons for that. Sometimes that means that the young person may need additional support. It may mean that they are having difficulty at school and that has to be properly looked into. That is why it is important that in the school system we have a sophisticated approach to understanding attendance and that we look at making sure that schools work together. We need to look at issues such as bullying inside school but also on the way to and from school. Schools really need work together on behaviour.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1359-60
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
I understand the noble Baroness’s frustration in wanting to look specifically at truancy. The issue here is: does it matter whether a parent, who has absolute responsibility for making sure that their child is in school, knows that their child is bunking off? We have to make sure that all unauthorised absence, whether it is in the knowledge of the parent or not, is tackled. We need to make sure that children are in school—that is why we have to focus on getting attendance up—and we need parents to play their role in that. That is why we have worked relentlessly throughout the system to get parents to take their responsibility to get children in school.
I understand the noble Baroness’s frustration in wanting to look specifically at truancy. The issue here is: does it matter whether a parent, who has absolute responsibility for making sure that their child is in school, knows that their child is bunking off? We have to make sure that all unauthorised absence, whether it is in the knowledge of the parent or not, is tackled. We need to make sure that children are in school—that is why we have to focus on getting attendance up—and we need parents to play their role in that. That is why we have worked relentlessly throughout the system to get parents to take their responsibility to get children in school.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Howe of Idlicote
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, in drawing on my experience of some 20 years as chairman of a juvenile court, does the Minister agree that early truancy is often a sign of other serious child or family behavioural problems? Given that—I refer specifically to truancy—can the Minister give your Lordships the national truancy figures for each of the past five years? If, as I suspect, these are not available, can she please ask that any future Government will make them available so that this House can do its job of scrutiny in keeping government policies and their effectiveness under review?
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1359
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
Can the Minister point out the necessity, addressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, of disaggregating these figures, so that we know why children are away? Some children need to be addressed themselves and others need to be addressed through their parents. It really is no good getting this the wrong way round.
Can the Minister point out the necessity, addressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, of disaggregating these figures, so that we know why children are away? Some children need to be addressed themselves and others need to be addressed through their parents. It really is no good getting this the wrong way round.
Asked by
Lord Elton
(Conservative)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
I agree, and that is why we have focused relentlessly on making sure that parents fulfil their legal obligation to make sure that they get children into school. That is also why we have ensured that there are parenting contracts and processes in place to make sure that where parents do not engage or do not know where their children are, they do their bit, get their kids to school and the system supports them to do that.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1360
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of primary school pupils were persistent absentees in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of primary school pupils were persistent absentees in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Asked by
Grant Shapps
(Conservative)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
23 March 2010
For answer on
25 March 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
Information on persistent absentees in primary schools is only available from 2006/07 onwards. Information at local authority level for 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09, and parliamentary constituency level for 2007/08 and 2008/09 has been placed in the Libraries. To provide further information would incur disproportionate cost.
Subjects
Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1360W; 324537
House
House of Commons
My Lords, perhaps I may go back to the Question. When the Government came to power, their focus was on education, education, education: yet despite more than £1 billion being spent on anti-truancy measures, the truancy rate has risen to record levels—up to 44 per cent. Will the Minister say exactly what the money has been spent on?
My Lords, perhaps I may go back to the Question. When the Government came to power, their focus was on education, education, education: yet despite more than £1 billion being spent on anti-truancy measures, the truancy rate has risen to record levels—up to 44 per cent. Will the Minister say exactly what the money has been spent on?
Asked by
Baroness Verma
(Conservative)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
My Lords, I must explain to the noble Baroness that what we are looking at here is driving up attendance. That means that we are very concerned to tackle unauthorised and authorised absence. We want to make sure that schools are not allowing parents to take children out of school for holidays and that truancy is tackled in the round. I am particularly pleased that all the investment that we have made in behaviour partnerships and school support staff has resulted in the best ever attendance rates for our young people in this country since records began.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1359
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I must explain to the noble Baroness that what we are looking at here is driving up attendance. That means that we are very concerned to tackle unauthorised and authorised absence. We want to make sure that schools are not allowing parents to take children out of school for holidays and that truancy is tackled in the round. I am particularly pleased that all the investment that we have made in behaviour partnerships and school support staff has resulted in the best ever attendance rates for our young people in this country since records began.
My Lords, I must explain to the noble Baroness that what we are looking at here is driving up attendance. That means that we are very concerned to tackle unauthorised and authorised absence. We want to make sure that schools are not allowing parents to take children out of school for holidays and that truancy is tackled in the round. I am particularly pleased that all the investment that we have made in behaviour partnerships and school support staff has resulted in the best ever attendance rates for our young people in this country since records began.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Verma
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, perhaps I may go back to the Question. When the Government came to power, their focus was on education, education, education: yet despite more than £1 billion being spent on anti-truancy measures, the truancy rate has risen to record levels—up to 44 per cent. Will the Minister say exactly what the money has been spent on?
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1359
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the noble Baroness is right to point to the importance of the role of school support staff in tackling problems of attendance. We are particularly concerned that schools work together to share expertise and advice in promoting high and improving attendance; so it is particularly worrying that the choice in this general election is between the Government and an opposition party that would reduce the numbers of support staff below the increase of 200,000 that we have achieved, which would undermine the achievement of this Government in driving up attendance.
My Lords, the noble Baroness is right to point to the importance of the role of school support staff in tackling problems of attendance. We are particularly concerned that schools work together to share expertise and advice in promoting high and improving attendance; so it is particularly worrying that the choice in this general election is between the Government and an opposition party that would reduce the numbers of support staff below the increase of 200,000 that we have achieved, which would undermine the achievement of this Government in driving up attendance.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Walmsley
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Is there any correlation between truancy figures and those schools that have home-school outreach workers? What will the Government do to ensure that every school can afford at least one of these officers, who can work not just with the school and parents, but also with other agencies such as the Youth Justice Board?
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1358
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
The noble Baroness raises a very important point: if a young person is persistently missing school we have to look at the underlying reasons for that. Sometimes that means that the young person may need additional support. It may mean that they are having difficulty at school and that has to be properly looked into. That is why it is important that in the school system we have a sophisticated approach to understanding attendance and that we look at making sure that schools work together. We need to look at issues such as bullying inside school but also on the way to and from school. Schools really need work together on behaviour.
The noble Baroness raises a very important point: if a young person is persistently missing school we have to look at the underlying reasons for that. Sometimes that means that the young person may need additional support. It may mean that they are having difficulty at school and that has to be properly looked into. That is why it is important that in the school system we have a sophisticated approach to understanding attendance and that we look at making sure that schools work together. We need to look at issues such as bullying inside school but also on the way to and from school. Schools really need work together on behaviour.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Massey of Darwen
(Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, does my noble friend accept that some children are absent from school because of difficulties in the school, such as bullying? Can she say what strategies are in place to combat bullying in both primary and secondary school?
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1359-60
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
Is there any correlation between truancy figures and those schools that have home-school outreach workers? What will the Government do to ensure that every school can afford at least one of these officers, who can work not just with the school and parents, but also with other agencies such as the Youth Justice Board?
Is there any correlation between truancy figures and those schools that have home-school outreach workers? What will the Government do to ensure that every school can afford at least one of these officers, who can work not just with the school and parents, but also with other agencies such as the Youth Justice Board?
Asked by
Baroness Walmsley
(Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
My Lords, the noble Baroness is right to point to the importance of the role of school support staff in tackling problems of attendance. We are particularly concerned that schools work together to share expertise and advice in promoting high and improving attendance; so it is particularly worrying that the choice in this general election is between the Government and an opposition party that would reduce the numbers of support staff below the increase of 200,000 that we have achieved, which would undermine the achievement of this Government in driving up attendance.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1358
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, attendance rates are the highest ever recorded, with more than 70,000 more pupils in school every day than in 1996-97. Information is collected on authorised and unauthorised absence. Unauthorised absence includes unexplained or unjustified absence such as lateness, unauthorised holidays during term time and truancy. In 2008-09, the percentage of half-days missed through unauthorised absence in England in maintained primary schools was 0.64 per cent. In state-funded secondary schools it was 1.49 per cent and in specialist schools it was 2.14 per cent.
My Lords, attendance rates are the highest ever recorded, with more than 70,000 more pupils in school every day than in 1996-97. Information is collected on authorised and unauthorised absence. Unauthorised absence includes unexplained or unjustified absence such as lateness, unauthorised holidays during term time and truancy. In 2008-09, the percentage of half-days missed through unauthorised absence in England in maintained primary schools was 0.64 per cent. In state-funded secondary schools it was 1.49 per cent and in specialist schools it was 2.14 per cent.
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Luke
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the latest truancy rate for schools in England and Wales.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1358
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the latest truancy rate for schools in England and Wales.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the latest truancy rate for schools in England and Wales.
Asked by
Lord Luke
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
(Labour)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
For answer on
6 April 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
My Lords, attendance rates are the highest ever recorded, with more than 70,000 more pupils in school every day than in 1996-97. Information is collected on authorised and unauthorised absence. Unauthorised absence includes unexplained or unjustified absence such as lateness, unauthorised holidays during term time and truancy. In 2008-09, the percentage of half-days missed through unauthorised absence in England in maintained primary schools was 0.64 per cent. In state-funded secondary schools it was 1.49 per cent and in specialist schools it was 2.14 per cent.
Subjects
Pupils; Schools; Truancy
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
718 c1358
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords