We’ve written a lot about attendance throughout the pandemic. From general overviews to scrutiny of Government initiatives and suggestions for how we might account for COVID in measures of persistent absence.
In all of these posts we’ve only been able to use data from English schools using Attendance Tracker. But from today, we’re pleased to be able to enhance the picture. We now have pupil attendance data from around 70 state-funded secondary schools in Wales – that’s around a third of the country’s secondary schools (including special)[1].
Notwithstanding differences in approaches to managing the pandemic between the two administrations, it suggests that the impact of COVID on pupil absence has been much greater in Wales than in England.
