More than 2,000 SATs papers are still missing, leaving hundreds of schools without results for their pupils as the new school year starts.
New figures published by the Department for Education today reveal for the first time the scale of the scandal, with 10 times more papers going missing than in normal years.
In July, there was 3,339 test scripts missing across reading, maths and grammar, punctuation and spelling tests. This impacted 1,047 schools.
About 1,150 were found over the summer – but this still leaves 2,186 papers missing impacting 523 schools.
