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Truancy: Special Educational Needs

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 15 November 2007

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Stephen Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of unauthorised absences pupils with (a) special educational needs and (b) a physical disability accounted for in each year since 2001 for which records exist. (164458)

Jim Knight

The available information is shown in the following table.

Information on whether a pupil has a physical disability is not collected centrally.

Maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies1: Pupil absence by special educational needs (SEN), 2005/06, England

Total

Percentage of half days missed3

Number of day pupils of compulsory school age2

Authorised absence

Unauthorised absence

Overall absence

Pupils with statements of SEN

71,700

8.99

2.48

11.47

Pupils with SEN without statements

501,340

8.80

2.89

11.69

Of which:

Pupils at School Action Plus

153,450

10.05

4.05

14.10

Pupils at School Action

347,880

8.25

2.38

10.63

Pupils with SEN (with and without statements)

573,030

8.82

2.84

11.66

Pupils with no identified SEN

2,410,010

6.30

1.06

7.35

Total4

2,983,040

6.82

1.42

8.24

1 Includes middle schools as deemed.

2 Pupil numbers are as at January 2006. Includes pupils aged 5 to 15 with sole and dual (main) registration. Excludes boarders.

4 Includes pupil enrolments for whom information on SEN was missing.

Note:

Totals may not appear to equal the sum of the component parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.

Source:

School Census