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Week 28 2022

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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• Table 1A - Daily attendance in education during the COVID-19 outbreak in holiday periods (not comparable to other time periods)

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for <strong>dates affected by October half term and Easter break only.</strong></p><p>Settings on half term or Easter break are excluded from these figures. For this reason, data within this file is not comparable to data within table 1b. &nbsp;</p><p>Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative </strong>of settings that were not on half term or Easter break.</p>

  • Number of rows: 275
  • Indicators:
    • Number of open settings, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
    • Number of schools greater than 10 less than 15 percent of teachers and school leaders for any absence, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
    • Number of schools greater than 10 less than 15 percent of teaching assistants and other staff for any absence, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
  • Filters:
    • Date
    • Setting type or phase
  • Time period: 2020 Week 43 to 2022 Week 9

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• Table 1E - Daily workforce absence in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (Spring lockdown - 11 January to 5 march 2021)

  National

  <p>This file contains workforce absence statistics for education settings during restricted opening from 11 January to 5 March 2021, excluding half term dates from 15 to 19 February 2021. Data is not comparable to workforce absence estimates collected in the autumn term.</p><p>Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 176
  • Indicators:
    • Number of teachers and school leaders attending on site in open schools
    • Number of teachers and school leaders in open schools self isolating and cannot teach remotely due to potential contact with a case of COVID19 inside the school
    • Number of teachers and school leaders in open schools self isolating and cannot teach remotely due to potential contact with a case of COVID19 outside the school
  • Filters:
    • Date
    • Phase of education
  • Time period: 2021 Week 2 to 2021 Week 9

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• Table 2 - Daily attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak

  National

  <p>The data in this file contains weekly attendance data for early years settings. Data in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 70
  • Indicators:
    • Children of critical workers attending early years settings
    • Number of children attending early years settings
    • Number of closed early years settings
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 16 to 2021 Week 9

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• Table 3 - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak Pre 17 July 2020

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March to 17th July 2020 inclusive. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 86
  • Indicators:
    • Children attending
    • Children attending nursery
    • Children attending reception
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 13 to 2020 Week 29

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• Table 4 - Daily attendance in responding education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak not nationally representative Pre 17 July 2020

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March to 17th July 2020 inclusive. &nbsp;Data is in this file has been <strong>not</strong> been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is not nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 36
  • Indicators:
    • Open responding settings (not nationally representative)
    • Proportion of responding settings open (not nationally representative)
    • Proportion of settings usually accepting these year groups open to nursery reception year 1 or year 6 (not nationally representative)
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 23 to 2020 Week 29

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• Table 5 - Weekly attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak at local authority level

  Local authority

  <p>This file contains local authority level data for early years settings.&nbsp;</p>

  • Number of rows: 9,910
  • Indicators:
    • Count of Closed Early Years Settings
    • Count of Open Early Years Settings
    • Total Children in Early Years Settings
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 15 to 2021 Week 9

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• Table 6 - Operating status, workforce absence and child attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak

  National

  <p>This file contains data for early years settings on operating status, workforce absence and child attendance.&nbsp;</p><p>The survey launched on 10 January 2022 and will continue during January up until February half term, at which point the survey will be reviewed.&nbsp;</p><p>Data is in this file has been <strong>not</strong> been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is not nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 7
  • Indicators:
    • Proportion of early years children booked to attend open settings who attended
    • Proportion of early years settings fully open
    • Proportion of early years settings partially open
  • Time period: 2022 Week 2 to 2022 Week 7

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• Table 1C - Attendance in state-funded schools during the COVID-19 outbreak at local authority

  Local authority, Regional

  <p>This file contains weekly attendance data at local authority level for state-funded education settings for each Thursday excluding half term and Easter dates.&nbsp;</p><p>The data is shown for each local authority and is further split by the following school phases:</p><ul><li>state-funded secondary schools</li><li>state-funded primary schools</li><li>state-funded special schools</li><li>all state-funded schools.</li></ul><p>Data is in this file has <strong>not</strong> been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is not nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 44,225
  • Indicators:
    • Attendance in fully open schools (%)
    • Attendance in schools (%)
    • Attendance in schools (%): adjusted to exclude y11-13 not in attendance
  • Filters:
    • Date
    • Phase of education
  • Time period: 2020 Week 37 to 2022 Week 9

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• Table 1B - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (excludes schools holiday dates)

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term and Easter dates.&nbsp;</p><p>Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p><p>Further details on the column headings can be found in the <strong>“Table 1b variable additions and removal log</strong>” ancillary file.</p>

  • Number of rows: 1,540
  • Indicators:
    • number of children of critical workers attending
    • number of fully open settings
    • number of open settings including inset
  • Filters:
    • date
    • phase
  • Time period: 2020 Week 37 to 2022 Week 9

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• Table 1D - Daily workforce absence in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (excludes school holiday dates)

  National

  <p>This file contains workforce absence statistics for education settings from 12 October 2020 to 17 December 2020 and again following wider reopening of schools, from 8 March 2021 to 16 September 2021. It excludes half term terms and Easter dates. Data for workforce during the restricted opening of schools can be found in table 1e.</p><p>Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 1,604
  • Indicators:
    • Number of teachers and school leaders absent for COVID-19 reasons
    • Number of teachers and school leaders absent for any reason
    • Number of teachers and school leaders absent for other reasons
  • Filters:
    • Date
    • Phase of education
  • Time period: 2020 Week 42 to 2022 Week 9

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• Table 1F - Distribution of school workforce absence rates in state-funded schools since September 2021

  National

  <p>This file contains levels of workforce absence rates in education settings from September 2021. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 831
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools more than 10 but less than 15 percent of teachers and school leaders for any absence
    • Number of schools more than 10 but less than 15 percent of teaching assistants and other staff for any absence
    • Number of schools more than 15 but less than 20 percent of teachers and school leaders for any absence
  • Filters:
    • Date
    • Phase of education
  • Time period: 2021 Week 36 to 2022 Week 9

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• Education Settings Survey questions since 1 September 2020

  Education Settings Survey questions since 1 September 2020

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• Variable additions and removals log

  Variable additions and removals log

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• Weekly attendance in state-funded schools by region, from 10 September 2020 to 16 December 2020 (excluding half term dates)

  Weekly attendance in state-funded schools by region, from 10 September 2020 to 16 December 2020 (excluding half term dates)

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

A summary of attendance in education settings from Monday 23 March 2020 to Friday 4 March 2022 and weekly on Thursdays from 7 March 2022 to 7 July 2022  and early years settings from Thursday 16 April 2020 to Thursday 9 December 2021 . A short term survey of early years settings took place from 10 January 2022 until 14 February 2022 to capture data on workforce absence and child attendance during the peak of the Omicron wave. This has now concluded.

From 12 October 2020, the education settings survey changed and therefore some metrics that used to be presented have been discontinued. The changes were made to give more comprehensive data about how many pupils are isolating from school for different reasons. There are no comparable figures to these from previous weeks.

This publication provides a high-level national summary of estimates from the Department for Education's education settings survey and local authority early years survey. We are working to expand the scope of published data in future releases.

Coverage

The data covers England only. Statistics in tables 1a, 1b, 1d, 1e, 1f, 2, 3 and 4 are given at national level. Statistics in tables 1c and 5 are given at local authority level. 

File formats and conventions

All files are .csv format. 

Where metrics have been discontinued due to a change in the education settings survey, a “-” symbol is used in that particular cell.

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