An increase in parents working from home since the pandemic could be fuelling a rise in children being absent from school on Fridays, education secretary Gillian Keegan has claimed. Unauthorised ...
An increase in parents working from home since the pandemic could be fuelling an unacceptable rise in children being absent ...
An analysis of Government figures has shown unauthorised absences are 20 per cent higher on Fridays than Wednesdays.
Truancy from school is a fifth higher on Fridays than Mondays, according to the latest figures. And the education secretary is blaming parents working from home and changes in post-Covid expectations ...