A child’s refusal to go to school due to anxiety has become the number one issue for parents and carers seeking advice, a children’s charity has said.
Action For Children said an article on its website offering advice on how to deal with the issue was visited more than 57,000 times in the year to March, compared with 35,552 the previous year.
It comes after the Commons Education Committee warned last month that school absence rates, which worsened during the pandemic, have seen “no significant improvement” and are “of great concern”.
