MPs Call for Register of Children Missing School Amid High Absence Rates

Many in the sector are ‘dismayed that things aren’t returning to a greater degree of normality’ after the pandemic, said education committee chair Robin Walker.

Students in a lesson at a school in the UK on Sept. 12, 2018. Ben Birchall/PA

A cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to create a register of children not in school, amid high absence rates after the pandemic.

The Education Select Committee has reviewed the statistics of school absences in England before and after the pandemic.