Overcome school worries: Expert tips to support your child and help keep them in class
ok.co.ukSchool plays a fundamental role in a child’s development and has a big impact on their overall well-being. While many children enjoy school and thrive in an environment where they can be with friends and take part in different activities, it is also completely normal for them to go through a phase of mild worry about going into school - perhaps after school holidays, a period of sickness, or due to a fall out with friends - and it can be difficult for parents to know what to do for the best when these feelings surface.
Before Covid, persistent absence had been decreasing, from 16.3% in 2010/2011 to 10.9% in 2019/2020, according to government statistics.
But following Covid, there has been a significant increase in absences from school.The government is working on this, and there are around 380,000 fewer pupils who were persistently absent or not attending in 2022/23 than in 2021/22.
But it is still the case that more than one in five children in England have frequently missed school over the last academic year, a figure which has more than doubled, compared with pre-pandemic numbers.
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