Will the Cabinet Secretary provide a full breakdown of the percentage of all pupil absences since 2019 that were due to ill health?
This data is in the table below and covers all maintained schools in Wales.
Table 1: Percentage of all half day sessions of absence missed due to ill health or term-time holidays, 2018/19 - 2023/24 [note 1]
|
|
2018/19 |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
|
% half day sessions of absence missed due to ill health |
52.0 |
37.1 |
50.2 |
49.4 |
45.1 |
|
% half day sessions of absence missed due to term-time holidays [note 5] |
16.6 |
4.8 |
8.9 |
11.7 |
12.4 |
[note 1] Due to the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the closure of schools in March 2020 no attendance data was collected for 2019/20.
[note 2] Source: Annual official attendance statistics.
[note 3] Source: Weekly attendance administrative data. Attendance codes were amended during the pandemic to reflect the circumstances and the data are not strictly comparable with the data for all other years in the table.
[note 4] Source: Weekly attendance administrative data. This data is comparable to data for 20128/19 and 2022/23.
[note 5] This includes both authorised and unauthorised term-time holidays.