DfE launches call for evidence on children missing education
The Department for Education is publishing a call for evidence on children missing education – those neither on a school roll nor being suitably home educated.
The DfE wants to receive evidence from local authorities, schools and other agencies, on what works to support children missing education and the challenges they face. This will play a vital role in allowing the Department to identify existing best practice and inform future policy.
In the call for evidence, the DfE wants to identify how children missing education are identified and supported; the challenges in identifying and supporting children missing education; and how to address those challenges.
This comes as the government outlines new plans to support schools to drive up attendance rates and include the expansion of the successful sector-led Attendance Hubs programme with nine new lead hub schools, alongside the expansion of Attendance Mentors in areas of the country with the highest levels of pupil absence.
The call for evidence is open until 20 July.
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