questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of above average unauthorised absence rates on educational outcomes in Sandwell local authority area.
answerText: Improving school attendance is central to the government’s Opportunity Mission to drive high and rising standards for every child. The government has inherited an epidemic of school absence which is one of the biggest barriers to opportunity, damaging lea...
heading: Truancy: Sandwell