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Anxiety, poverty and undiagnosed special needs fuel spiralling levels of school truancy

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School leaders have warned that poverty, anxiety and undiagnosed special needs are fuelling spiralling levels of truancy that have taken hold since the pandemic.

Education experts called for more to be done to help pupils who are living in poverty and whose own or whose parents’ mental health problems are stopping them from

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