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Richard Oldershaw, lead adviser at Coram's Child Law Advice Service, explains how schools and councils should monitor pupil attendance and home education arrangements and what to do when problems arise

Latest figures suggest that one in five pupils in England are persistently missing class, prompting Ofsted and the government to look at more support for schools struggling with the issue, reports Jo Stephenson

Honduras has recorded impressive gains in expanding educational access in the 1990s, with the result that primary education is available to almost all children. With improved access, the focus has shifted to quality and efficiency issues. Previous research suggests that academic achievement is still quite low, while repetition and school desertion rates continue to remain high. An important cause of these outcomes appears to lie in patterns of school attendance. Low levels of school attendance may be responsible for low academic achievement, which, in turn, is linked to high repetition and desertion rates. Recognizing this probable chain of events, this paper focuses on the school attendance decision. (DSE/DÜI)

"The Welsh Assembly Government launched "Behaving and Attending: the Action Plan for Responding to the Behaviour and Attendance Review" on 30 March 2009. A key action in it was: "To produce an All-Wales Attendance Framework which would include revising current school attendance codes and producing guidance". This document sets out the list of revised codes for use in all schools in Wales." - introduction.

Richard Oldershaw, lead adviser at the Child Law Advice Service, on updates to regulations on school attendance during the pandemic

With: Bulletin (Texas. Dept. of Education) ; 135-46. ; "March 1922." ; Tx Doc no.: E500.7, B936, 135-46. ; Mode of access: Internet.