Schools across the country continue to grapple with stubbornly high absence rates in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The challenge is especially acute in secondary schools where, in 2024-25, the average absence rate was 8.4 per cent, up from 5.5 per cent in 2018-19.<\/p>\n
Improving pupils\u2019 sense of \u201cbelonging\u201d in school has recently emerged as a promising lever for improving attendance, because it is something which schools can meaningfully influence.<\/p>","protected":true},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New research reveals a need to tackle factors outside of a school\u2019s direct influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311127,"featured_media":247439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post-theme":[],"class_list":["post-247493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t