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1. Step 1

   • Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England

2. Step 2

   • Data set: 01 - Absence rates by geographic level

3. Step 3

   • Local authority:
     • Barking and Dagenham
     • Barnet
     • Barnsley
     • Bath and North East Somerset
     • Bedford

4. Step 4

   • Time period: 2020/21

5. Step 5

   • Indicators:
     • Overall absence rate
     • Percentage of persistent absentees (10% or more missed)
     • Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
   • School type:
     • Total

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   '01 - Absence rates by geographic level' in Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Barnsley, Bath and North East Somerset, Bedford and 146 other locations for 2020/21

   		2020/21
   		Overall absence rate	Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances	Percentage of persistent absentees (10% or more missed)
   North East	County Durham	4.6%	22.3%	12.3%
   	Darlington	4.4%	21.8%	11.9%
   	Gateshead	5.0%	21.2%	13.4%
   	Hartlepool	5.4%	21.3%	16.3%
   	Middlesbrough	5.7%	22.7%	16.7%
   	Newcastle upon Tyne	5.8%	23.0%	16.1%
   	North Tyneside	3.8%	22.1%	9.3%
   	Northumberland	4.7%	20.6%	12.1%
   	Redcar and Cleveland	4.6%	22.8%	12.0%
   	South Tyneside	4.6%	23.1%	11.6%
   	Stockton-on-Tees	4.6%	22.2%	11.8%
   	Sunderland	5.1%	22.5%	13.5%
   North West	Blackburn with Darwen	5.0%	23.7%	13.7%
   	Blackpool	4.9%	22.8%	14.0%
   	Bolton	4.3%	25.7%	10.5%
   	Bury	4.6%	22.8%	11.8%
   	Cheshire East	4.3%	20.8%	11.2%
   	Cheshire West and Chester	4.6%	20.0%	11.5%
   	Cumbria	4.0%	21.3%	9.7%
   	Halton	5.3%	22.1%	14.9%
   	Knowsley	5.8%	22.5%	17.5%
   	Lancashire	4.4%	22.3%	11.5%
   	Liverpool	5.3%	24.0%	14.8%
   	Manchester	5.1%	24.2%	14.1%
   	Oldham	5.7%	24.7%	16.0%
   	Rochdale	5.3%	24.8%	14.7%
   	Salford	5.7%	23.2%	16.7%
   	Sefton	5.0%	22.1%	13.4%
   	St. Helens	5.4%	21.0%	14.7%
   	Stockport	4.5%	21.2%	11.9%
   	Tameside	4.2%	22.9%	10.2%
   	Trafford	3.9%	21.5%	9.8%
   	Warrington	4.1%	20.6%	9.9%
   	Wigan	4.8%	23.6%	12.2%
   	Wirral	4.9%	20.5%	12.5%
   Yorkshire and The Humber	Barnsley	4.8%	20.3%	12.5%
   	Bradford	6.4%	23.1%	18.5%
   	Calderdale	4.5%	22.8%	12.2%
   	Doncaster	5.2%	21.4%	14.2%
   	East Riding of Yorkshire	4.1%	22.2%	10.0%
   	Kingston upon Hull, City of	5.1%	23.1%	14.8%
   	Kirklees	4.8%	22.6%	12.8%
   	Leeds	4.6%	22.7%	12.5%
   	North East Lincolnshire	5.4%	19.5%	15.4%
   	North Lincolnshire	4.8%	21.2%	13.7%
   	North Yorkshire	4.4%	20.0%	11.1%
   	Rotherham	4.8%	20.5%	12.9%
   	Sheffield	5.6%	21.6%	16.0%
   	Wakefield	4.8%	21.7%	12.9%
   	York	4.1%	19.7%	10.1%
   East Midlands	Derby	4.8%	21.3%	13.2%
   	Derbyshire	4.2%	19.7%	10.5%
   	Leicester	4.6%	24.4%	11.9%
   	Leicestershire	4.1%	20.6%	10.0%
   	Lincolnshire	4.5%	20.6%	12.3%
   	Northamptonshire	4.3%	19.6%	10.7%
   	Nottingham	5.4%	22.1%	15.0%
   	Nottinghamshire	4.2%	20.7%	10.3%
   	Rutland	3.0%	20.2%	6.5%
   West Midlands	Birmingham	5.7%	24.0%	16.1%
   	Coventry	4.9%	22.1%	13.6%
   	Dudley	4.9%	23.0%	13.8%
   	Herefordshire, County of	4.3%	18.4%	10.9%
   	Sandwell	4.6%	25.3%	12.0%
   	Shropshire	4.3%	19.7%	10.9%
   	Solihull	5.0%	22.7%	13.1%
   	Staffordshire	4.2%	21.2%	10.8%
   	Stoke-on-Trent	5.4%	23.4%	15.6%
   	Telford and Wrekin	4.8%	21.5%	13.1%
   	Walsall	5.4%	23.1%	14.9%
   	Warwickshire	4.7%	21.1%	11.9%
   	Wolverhampton	4.5%	23.4%	12.3%
   	Worcestershire	4.6%	20.3%	11.8%
   East of England	Bedford	4.2%	20.4%	10.8%
   	Cambridgeshire	4.2%	17.6%	10.6%
   	Central Bedfordshire	4.2%	20.4%	10.0%
   	Essex	4.4%	21.9%	11.0%
   	Hertfordshire	4.1%	20.9%	9.7%
   	Luton	5.0%	24.8%	12.9%
   	Norfolk	5.0%	14.7%	13.3%
   	Peterborough	4.7%	20.0%	12.5%
   	Southend-on-Sea	4.9%	21.6%	13.6%
   	Suffolk	4.6%	18.3%	11.8%
   	Thurrock	4.2%	23.4%	10.5%
   South East	Bracknell Forest	3.7%	20.7%	8.5%
   	Brighton and Hove	4.6%	20.9%	11.7%
   	Buckinghamshire	4.4%	21.4%	10.9%
   	East Sussex	4.9%	20.2%	12.8%
   	Hampshire	4.0%	19.1%	9.9%
   	Isle of Wight	4.7%	18.4%	13.2%
   	Kent	4.8%	22.6%	13.2%
   	Medway	4.9%	23.4%	13.4%
   	Milton Keynes	4.2%	22.3%	10.8%
   	Oxfordshire	4.3%	20.1%	10.3%
   	Portsmouth	5.2%	20.2%	13.4%
   	Reading	4.7%	21.0%	12.3%
   	Slough	5.1%	20.8%	13.6%
   	Southampton	5.3%	21.0%	14.7%
   	Surrey	4.0%	20.0%	9.7%
   	West Berkshire	4.2%	19.7%	10.3%
   	West Sussex	4.2%	19.1%	10.7%
   	Windsor and Maidenhead	4.2%	20.0%	10.3%
   	Wokingham	3.9%	19.5%	9.2%
   South West	Bath and North East Somerset	4.3%	20.8%	10.3%
   	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	4.4%	19.2%	10.9%
   	Bristol, City of	5.7%	21.0%	16.4%
   	Cornwall	4.3%	19.2%	11.2%
   	Devon	4.8%	17.8%	12.7%
   	Dorset	4.6%	18.7%	11.5%
   	Gloucestershire	4.2%	20.1%	10.7%
   	Isles of Scilly	4.3%	9.6%	8.8%
   	North Somerset	4.4%	20.9%	11.1%
   	Plymouth	4.9%	19.3%	12.9%
   	Somerset	4.6%	19.2%	11.5%
   	South Gloucestershire	4.1%	20.8%	10.4%
   	Swindon	4.7%	17.8%	12.4%
   	Torbay	5.3%	18.5%	15.2%
   	Wiltshire	4.1%	18.9%	10.1%
   Inner London	Camden	5.3%	21.8%	14.1%
   	City of London	2.7%	16.5%	3.4%
   	Hackney	4.4%	22.9%	11.1%
   	Hammersmith and Fulham	4.5%	19.7%	11.3%
   	Haringey	4.9%	21.2%	13.4%
   	Islington	5.1%	21.8%	14.1%
   	Kensington and Chelsea	4.5%	21.2%	11.1%
   	Lambeth	4.7%	21.6%	12.7%
   	Lewisham	4.2%	21.6%	10.9%
   	Newham	4.9%	23.4%	13.5%
   	Southwark	4.5%	21.3%	11.6%
   	Tower Hamlets	4.3%	24.3%	10.3%
   	Wandsworth	4.5%	19.3%	11.8%
   	Westminster	5.4%	21.1%	14.2%
   Outer London	Barking and Dagenham	4.8%	22.8%	13.1%
   	Barnet	3.9%	20.9%	9.0%
   	Bexley	4.2%	22.7%	10.5%
   	Brent	4.4%	21.1%	11.3%
   	Bromley	4.1%	22.4%	9.7%
   	Croydon	4.6%	21.4%	12.2%
   	Ealing	4.5%	22.4%	11.6%
   	Enfield	5.1%	23.7%	14.6%
   	Greenwich	4.1%	21.6%	10.0%
   	Harrow	4.1%	21.3%	10.8%
   	Havering	3.8%	25.2%	8.9%
   	Hillingdon	4.6%	22.1%	11.6%
   	Hounslow	4.2%	22.7%	10.1%
   	Kingston upon Thames	4.0%	20.2%	9.6%
   	Merton	4.4%	19.6%	11.0%
   	Redbridge	4.4%	23.8%	10.6%
   	Richmond upon Thames	3.8%	20.5%	8.9%
   	Sutton	4.4%	21.1%	11.7%
   	Waltham Forest	5.3%	22.4%	14.8%

   Footnotes

   1. Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances are included as possible sessions in 2020/21 only, but not as an absence within absence rates.
   2. Total includes state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Data for special schools is available from 2016/17 to present.

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   • Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England, Academic year 2022/23

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