(Not going) back to school: Inside the UK’s epidemic of school refusers

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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