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Persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils

Status: Closed Opened: 12 Jan 2023 Closed: 27 May 2024 23 recommendations 14 conclusions 1 report

The Education Committee has launched an inquiry into persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils. This inquiry will focus on the issue of persistent and severe absence in schools, with a focus on supporting disadvantaged pupils. The inquiry aims to examine the issue of persistent and severe absence and the factors causing it and to …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Seventh Report - Persistent absence and support for disadva… HC 970 27 Sep 2023 37 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
19 Recommendation Seventh Report - Persistent absence and… Not Addressed

Implement an enrichment guarantee for pupils with KPIs focused on improving school attendance.

As the Centre for Social Justice have recommend, the Department should implement an enrichment guarantee for pupils in school including the use of sport, music, drama and art, looking to the youth sector for best practice. This guarantee should have KPIs focusing on improving school attendance, and the Department should …

Government response. The government does not commit to an enrichment guarantee or associated KPIs, instead stating that pupil premium and recovery premium funding, through its menu of approaches, already allows schools to fund extra-curricular activities like sport, music, drama, and art to …
Department for Education

Oral evidence sessions

4 sessions
Date Witnesses
27 Jun 2023 Graham Archer · Department for Education, Rt Hon Nick Gibb · Department for Education View ↗
6 Jun 2023 David Holmes · Family Action, Declan Barker · Nottingham City Council, Jonathan Pauley · City Inspires, Leigh Middleton · National Youth Agency, Nathan Persaud · School of Hard Knocks (SoHK) View ↗
16 May 2023 Diana Sutton · Bell Foundation, Dr Claudia Sumner · Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), Dr Daniel Stavrou · Special Education Consortium, Ellie Costello · Square Peg, Pauline Anderson OBE · Traveller Movement, Vicki Nash · Mind View ↗
7 Mar 2023 Alice Wilcock · Centre for Social Justice, Cllr Lucy Nethsingha · Local Government Association, Dame Rachel de Souza · Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, Mr Rob Williams · National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) View ↗