Secondary school absence rate of pupils with an education, health and care plan, by local authority, 2017–18 to 2023–24

A line chart from the Institute for Government of secondary school absence rate of pupils with an education, health and care plan, by local authority, 2017–18 to 2023–24, where in 2023–24, the best-performing tenth of local authority areas had absence rates among secondary EHCP pupils of 10.5%, higher than the worst-performing tenth five years earlier. Now, in the worst-affected areas, absences stand at 19.5%.

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Source: Institute for Government analysis of DfE, ‘Pupil absence in schools in England’, 2017–18 to 2023–24.Notes: Absence data was not published in 2019–20. If a child was recorded as 'not attending due to Covid circumstances' (as defined by DfE), that is not included as an absence. The City of London and Isles of Scilly are excluded from calculations of the percentiles. Covers state-funded mainstream secondary schools in England only. Get the dataEmbed Download image

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