This publication provides data reported by local authorities on children missing education (CME) in England.
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Number of children missing education in England on census date by local authority, all terms from autumn 2022/23
Number of children missing education in England at any point during the academic year, by local authority, 2021/22 to 2024/25. Where a child was CME more than once, they are only recorded once.
Data sets present comprehensive open data from which users can create their own tables using the EES table tool or download a zipped CSV file.
Local authority, National, Regional
The number of children missing education in England at the census date in each term, by sex, year group and length of time missing education.
Local authority, National, Regional
The number of children missing education in England at any point in the academic year (where a child has multiple episodes missing education they are counted only once).
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
The release provides information on the number of children missing education (CME) in England at census date in each term, plus the number of children missing education at any time in the previous academic year. The methodology document should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.
Local authority and regional data has been rounded to the nearest 10, national figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
x - unavailable
z - not applicable
low - denotes figures based on count that rounds to 0, but is not 0. Figures may not sum to breakdowns due to rounding.
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