Attendance in education and early years settings during COVID-19
Attendance in education settings during the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic since Monday 23 March 2020 and early years settings since Thursday 16 April 2020.
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COVID Attendance Statistics
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Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Minister of State for Schools
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System and Minister for Women
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families
- Special Advisers (2 recipients)
- Permanent Secretary
- Deputy Permanent Secretary
- Director General, Higher Education and Further Education
- Director General, Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Director General, COVID response and Schools Recovery
- Director General, Operations Directorate
- Director General, Early Years and Schools Group
- Director General, COVID response and Schools Recovery
- Director, Data Directorate
- Director, Schools Systems Group
- Director, Children's Social Care
- Director, Children's Social Care
- Director, ARDG - South East and South London
- Director, Academies and Maintained Schools
- Deputy Director, Early Years Strategy and Entitlements
- Deputy Director, Data Operations
- Deputy Director, Early Years Strategy and Entitlements
- Deputy Director, COVID Response Unit
- Deputy Director, Communications Group
- Deputy Director, Strategy, Design and Portfolio Division
- Assistant Director SEND, Alternative Provision and Attendance Unit
- Assistant Director, Policy, Schools COVID-19 Recovery
- Deputy Head of News
- G6, Early Years Sector Intelligence and LA Delivery Division
- G6, Governance, Intervention, Faith and Accountability Division
- Senior Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education
- G6, Deputy Head of Media, SCMD
- Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education
- G6, Central Statistics Standards Unit
- G7, Intelligence and Evidence Cell - Covid Response Unit
- G7, COVID 19 - Vulnerable Children Team
- G7, School Attendance Policy Team
- G7, Communications Group
- G7, Opportunity Area
- G7,Communications Group
- G7, Central Analysis Unit
- G7, Office of the Permanent Secretary
- SEO, Communications Group
- SEO, Communications Group
- SEO, Strategic Communications, Marketing, Social Media and Publishing Team
- SEO, Communications Group
- SEO, COVID Response Unit
- SEO, Communications Group
- SEO, Attendance Policy Adviser
- SEO, Press office
- HEO, Communications Group
- HEO, COVID 19 - Vulnerable Children Team
- HEO, Private Office Correspondence Management
- HEO, Communications Group
- HEO, Social Media and Digital Content
- Social Media and Digital Content
- HEO, Parliamentary Team