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 School Standards |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills, Further and Higher Education |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System |
| Special Advisers (3 recipients) |
| Permanent Secretary |
| Deputy Permanent Secretary |
| Director General, Higher Education and Further Education |
| Director General, Education and Skills Funding Agency |
| Director General, Early Years and Schools Group |
| Director General, COVID response and Schools Recovery |
| Director, Data Directorate |
| Director, Schools Systems Group |
| Director, Early Years, Childcare, School Food and Teacher Regulation Directorate |
| Director, Children's Social Care |
| Director, Children's Social Care |
| Director, Academies and Maintained Schools |
| Director, EFSA, Further Education Directorate |
| Acting Director, COVID response and Schools Recovery |
| Deputy Director, Early Years Strategy and Entitlements |
| Deputy Director, Early Years Strategy and Entitlements |
| Deputy Director, Early Years Startegy and Covid Response |
| Deputy Director, Early Years workforce |
| Deputy Director, Intelligence & Evidence |
| Deputy Director, Covid Response Measures |
| Deputy Director, Communications Group |
| Deputy Director, Strategy, Design and Portfolio Division |
| Deputy Director, Further Education Covid-19 Policy Response |
| Deputy Director, Schools COVID Response Directorate |
| G6, Early Years Sector Intelligence and LA Delivery Division |
| G6, Early Years Workforce |
| G6 Early Years Covid Response |
| G6, Governance, Intervention, Faith and Accountability Division |
| G6, Head of Social Media |
| DPPS, Social Care, Mobility, and Disadvantaged Group |
| G7, Analysis Directorate |
| G6, Intelligence and Evidence Cell - Covid Response Unit |
| G7, Early Years Stakeholders, Briefing and Correspondence |
| G7, School Attendance Policy Team |
| G7, Communications Group |
| G7, Chief Media Officer and Strategic Communications Lead |
| G7, Opportunity Area |
| G7,Communications Group |
| G7, Central Analysis Unit |
| G7, Office of the Permanent Secretary |
| G7, School Workforce Strategy Analysis Team |
| G7, FE analysis, Skills Policy Analysis Division |
| G7, COVID Team, FE Directorate |
| G7, Analysis Directorate |
| SSTO, School Workforce Strategy Analysis Team |
| G7, Communications Group |
| SEO, Communications Group |
| SEO, Strategic Communications, Marketing, Social Media and Publishing Team |
| SEO, Social Media and Digital Content |
| SEO, Communications Group |
| SEO, Attendance Policy Adviser |
| SEO, Press office |
| SEO, Communications Group |
| SEO, PM Briefing Officer |
| HEO, Communications Group |
| HEO, Social Media and Digital Content |
| HEO, Parliamentary Team |
| HEO, Communications Group |
| HEO, Parliamentary Team |
| Media Officer, Communications Group (3 recipients) |
| Media Officer, Children and Social Care directorate |