Data set from Children missing education

Children missing education at census date

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Published 18 May 2023

Last updated 18 May 2023

The number of children missing education at the census date in each term. Includes Autumn 2022 to Summer 2023.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Children missing education
• Release: Academic year 2022/23
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • CME at census date
• Time period: 2022/23 Autumn term to 2022/23 Summer term

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	cme_census_date
202223	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England						24700
202223	Autumn term	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				470
202223	Autumn term	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				3200
202223	Autumn term	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				3710
202223	Autumn term	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				4710

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 1 variables

Variable name	Variable description
cme_census_date	CME at census date

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Footnotes

1. Local authorities have a duty under section 436A of the Education Act 1996 to make arrangements to establish the identities of children in their area who are not registered pupils at a school and are not receiving suitable education otherwise. Discussions with local authorities suggest that the data is an accurate reflection of the number children they have identified but there is some variation in practice, including around when a child should be recorded as CME. This means that whilst the data is an accurate reflection of the number of CME on record within local authorities, it may not represent a consistently defined estimate of all CME across the country.
2. Data was received from 91% of local authorities in the Autumn term, 93% in the Spring term and 96% in the Summer term. To account for non-response, national and regional figures have been uprated based on local authority pupil populations.

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