I loved being home schooled (apart from my mum’s sex ed lessons). But are new methods too radical?
Elle Hunt
Former girls’ school in London to reopen as pioneering youth hub
June 2024
Mental health is main cause of rising absences in England, say headteachers
Nearly nine out of 10 report marked rise in pupils missing school due to mental health issues since Covid pandemic
May 2024
Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents
Vulnerable children in England ‘safer at school’ than being educated at home
April 2024
Teenagers who use internet to excess ‘more likely to skip school’
‘She wants to go to school’: parents of unwell child fear truancy prosecution
March 2024
School absences are a sign the curriculum could be failing children
Letters: Chris Parker calls for an emphasis on the whole child rather than examsand rigid learning, and Simon Gibbs asks whether pupils have lost faith in the system
Record numbers of pupils in England absent for long periods, DfE data shows
Number of severely absent children was 150% higher last year than pre-Covid, with one in 50 children missing at least half of lessons
Students suspended even for short spells fare worse at GCSEs, study finds
‘Children are being failed’: why more English parents are home educating
School accused of ‘snooping’ on family homes to crack down on pupil absences
February 2024
Number of children home schooled in England rises by more than 10,000
Mental health being increasingly cited as main reason for parents choosing home education, official figures find
Fines for unauthorised absence from school in England to rise by 33%
Daily registers will also be shared online with DfE as part of government drive to improve attendance
School summer holidays in England should be cut to four weeks, report says
Staff absences fell 50% after schools introduced longer half-term break
If pupils avoid school due to anxiety, the system needs to change
January 2024
England homeschooling surge could become permanent, data suggests
Department for Education estimates 97,000 children were home educated in 2023 summer term, 11,000 more than previous term
Every year spent in school or university improves life expectancy, study says
Analysis also says not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking
Why 140,000 pupils are ‘severely absent’ from school in England – and what we can do about it
Redundancies, lack of funding, and a pandemic have all contributed to a huge rise in children missing from class. Now a bold new initiative aims to solve the problem
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