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Persistent absentees as a percentage of all pupils without a statement (School Action Plus) (15% or more sessions missed)
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Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of pupils defined as persistent absentees at all state-funded schools for Special Educational Needs (SEN) pupils without a statement (School Action Plus), as a percentage of the number (headcount) of all pupils of the same SEN stage (including sole or dual main registrations and boarding pupils)..
Persistent Absentees are defined as having an overall absence rate of around 15 per cent or more. This equates to 56 or more sessions of absence (authorised and unauthorised) during the year for pupils aged between 5 and 14 and 46 or more sessions of absence (authorised and unauthorised) during the year for pupils aged 15.
This is calculated as the number of enrolments classed as persistent absentees divided by the number of enrolments multiplied by 100.
School Action Plus is when the teacher and the SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator) are given advice or support from outside specialists. For example a specialist teacher, an educational psychologist, a speech and language therapist or other health professionals). Extra or different help to that provided through School Action can then be put in place.
Schools include state-funded schools including schools maintained by the local authority (primary, middle and secondary), free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools, academies and special academies. Excludes general hospital schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved for SEN pupils.
Small numbers are suppressed according to the following rules: 1) Enrolment numbers at national and regional levels are rounded to the nearest 5. Local authority totals across school types are also rounded to the nearest 5 to prevent disclosure of any suppressed values. 2) Enrolment numbers of 1 or 2 are suppressed to protect pupil confidentiality as are any percentage calculated on these. 3) where any number is shown as 0, the original figure was also 0.
- Modified
- 03 Apr 2020
- Data last updated
- 06 May 2016
- Short label
- Persistent absentees - SEN pupils without a statement (School Action Plus) (15% of sessions)
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Percentage of the school population
- Dataset
- Absence Rates and Pupils Defined as Persistent Absentees by Special Educational Needs
- Collection
- Pupil Absence in Schools in England
- Source
- Department for Education
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