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Once children who didn’t turn up at school were dubbed truants, their records were marked and parents were punished. But today, more than a million children and teens are persistently absent. Chloe Combi talks to them and their parents and asks how we got to a place where nearly 20 per cent of children don’t go to school
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eece* (13) hasn’t been to school for nearly 400 days. He should be starting Year 9 on Thursday at his comprehensive school in northwest London, but he didn’t attend a single day of Year 8 following Year 7 when he began to “melt down every day before school”, according to his mother, Elaine. She has three other children, one of whom has special needs, and when I speak to her, she looks not just tired, but worn down.
