Good progress on attendance

The latest attendance data shows the Government has reversed the disastrous trend under Labour of plummeting school attendance. Regular attendance is up from 40% to 66%. Still a long way to go to reach the 80% target.

In terms of actual students, there are 185,000 more students attending school regularly than three years ago.

The area of most concern is those not even attending 70% of the time. Over three years this has dropped from 14% to 6%, or from 103,000 to 51,000.