chool absence is at a crisis point. The number of children absent from school more often than not has reached an all-time high. A new report from The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has found that the number of severely absent so-called ‘ghost children’ reached 140,000 in the summer of 2022. That’s a 134 per cent increase compared to before the pandemic. And one in four children are now persistently absent, missing more than 10 per cent
