➡️ Almost two million pupils regularly missing school ➡️ Partygate probe continues ➡️ Critical care patient numbers drop 5 things you need to know about Covid today
1. School absences
Following concerns some children never fully returned to lessons after lockdown, an investigation has uncovered the scale of school absences.in the autumn term in England, and 122,000 have not attended at least half of their lessons. These figures based on council data are "extremely concerning", says Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza. Blake, 15, was one of those children but his school intervened and he's on track to sit some GCSEs in the summer.
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