Data set from Pupil absence in schools in England

Absence for pupils identified as young carers

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Published 26 March 2026

Last updated 26 March 2026

Overall absence for all enrolments in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools for pupils declared as young carers

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England
• Release: Academic year 2024/25
• Number of rows: 36
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Overall absence rate
  • Percentage of persistent absentees
  • Number of pupil enrolments
  • Number of sessions possible
  • Number of overall absence sessions
  • Number of authorised absence sessions
  • Number of unauthorised absence sessions
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Unauthorised absence rate
  • Number of persistent absentees
  • Number of authorised holiday sessions
  • Number of authorised other sessions
  • Number of authorised reasons sessions
  • Number of excluded sessions
  • Number of illness sessions
  • Number of interview sessions
  • Number of late sessions
  • Number of medical appointments sessions
  • Number of regulated performance sessions
  • Number of religious observance sessions
  • Number of study leave sessions
  • Number of temporary reduced timetable sessions
  • Number of traveller sessions
  • Number of unauthorised holiday sessions
  • Number of unauthorised other sessions
  • Number of unauthorised reasons sessions
  • Number of no reason yet sessions
  • Number of overall reasons sessions
  • Interview rate
  • Rate of authorised holiday sessions
  • Rate of authorised other sessions
  • Rate of authorised reasons sessions
  • Rate of excluded sessions
  • Rate of illness sessions
  • Rate of late sessions
  • Rate of medical appointments sessions
  • Rate of religious observance sessions
  • Rate of study leave sessions
  • Rate of traveller sessions
  • Rate of unauthorised holiday sessions
  • Rate of unauthorised other sessions
  • Rate of unauthorised reasons sessions
  • Regulated performance rate
  • Temporary reduced timetable rate
  • Rate of no reason yet sessions
  • Rate of overall reasons sessions
  • Number of sessions recorded as exceptional circumstances
  • Number of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
  • Number of sessions recorded as unable to attend because of access arrangements
  • Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
• Filters:
  • School type
  • Young Carer
• Time period: 2022/23 to 2024/25

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	absence_terms	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	education_phase	young_carer	enrolments	sess_possible	sess_overall	sess_authorised	sess_unauthorised	sess_overall_percent	sess_authorised_percent	sess_unauthorised_percent	enrolments_pa_10_exact	enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	sess_auth_illness	sess_auth_appointments	sess_auth_religious	sess_auth_study	sess_auth_traveller	sess_auth_holiday	sess_auth_ext_holiday	sess_auth_excluded	sess_auth_interview	sess_auth_reg_performance	sess_auth_temp_reduced_timetable	sess_auth_other	sess_auth_totalreasons	sess_unauth_holiday	sess_unauth_late	sess_unauth_other	sess_unauth_noyet	sess_unauth_totalreasons	sess_overall_totalreasons	sess_x_covid	sess_y_exceptional	sess_q_la_arrangements	sess_auth_illness_rate	sess_auth_appointments_rate	sess_auth_religious_rate	sess_auth_study_rate	sess_auth_traveller_rate	sess_auth_holiday_rate	sess_auth_ext_holiday_rate	sess_auth_excluded_rate	sess_auth_interview_rate	sess_auth_reg_performance_rate	sess_auth_temp_reduced_timetable_rate	sess_auth_other_rate	sess_auth_totalreasons_rate	sess_unauth_holiday_rate	sess_unauth_late_rate	sess_unauth_other_rate	sess_unauth_noyet_rate	sess_unauth_totalreasons_rate	sess_overall_totalreasons_rate	sess_x_covid_rate
202223	Academic year	Six half terms	National	E92000001	England	Special	Not declared	132304	45369167	5903089	4474908	1428181	13.01124	9.86332	3.14791	50677	38.30345	2510984	433788	39470	7957	2961	157814	z	69003	z	z	z	1216968	4438945	153939	80235	1140116	40973	1415263	5854208	6	943853	z	5.534560509	0.956129523	0.086997409	0.017538343	0.006526459	0.347844165	z	0.152092279	z	z	z	2.682367961	9.784056648	0.339303122	0.17684918	2.512975387	0.090310232	3.119437921	12.90349457	1.32E-05
202223	Academic year	Six half terms	National	E92000001	England	State-funded primary	Not declared	3942229	1379601850	81196133	58495432	22700701	5.88548	4.24002	1.64545	637267	16.16514	46370683	3140591	1521546	2410	201631	920618	z	304562	z	z	z	4616661	57078702	8686954	1799560	11185805	550922	22223241	79301943	549	19629020	z	3.361164165	0.227644737	0.110288776	0.000174688	0.014615159	0.066730702	z	0.022076079	z	z	z	0.3346372	4.137331506	0.62967109	0.130440533	0.810799507	0.039933405	1.610844535	5.748176041	3.98E-05
202223	Academic year	Six half terms	National	E92000001	England	State-funded secondary	Not declared	3283912	1084187976	97270814	60936749	36334065	8.97177	5.6205	3.35127	866711	26.39264	44391648	3783905	1101589	1182957	53905	313922	z	2930989	z	z	z	6997629	60756544	3983566	2022440	29204352	1087031	36297389	97053933	154	35882099	z	4.094460461	0.349008206	0.101604982	0.109109954	0.004971924	0.028954573	z	0.27033956	z	z	z	0.645425808	5.603875467	0.367423924	0.186539608	2.693661307	0.100262226	3.347887064	8.951762531	1.42E-05
202223	Academic year	Six half terms	National	E92000001	England	Total	Not declared	7358445	2509158993	184370036	123907089	60462947	7.34788	4.93819	2.40969	1554655	21.12749	93273315	7358284	2662605	1193324	258497	1392354	z	3304554	z	z	z	12831258	122274191	12824459	3902235	41530273	1678926	59935893	182210084	709	56454972	z	3.717313859	0.293256985	0.106115436	0.047558724	0.010302137	0.055490864	z	0.131699665	z	z	z	0.511376841	4.873114511	0.511105874	0.155519639	1.655147128	0.066911902	2.388684542	7.261799053	2.83E-05
202223	Academic year	Six half terms	National	E92000001	England	Special	Young Carer	230	77598	14840	10213	4627	19.1242	13.16142	5.96278	127	55.21739	5059	733	17	48	2	337	z	336	z	z	z	3420	9952	140	228	4025	66	4459	14411	0	1163	z	6.519497925	0.944611975	0.021907781	0.061857264	0.002577386	0.434289544	z	0.433000851	z	z	z	4.407330086	12.82507281	0.180417021	0.293822006	5.186989355	0.085053738	5.746282121	18.57135493	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 52 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School type - Filter by school type - Total includes primary, secondary and special
enrolments	Number of pupil enrolments
enrolments_pa_10_exact	Number of persistent absentees
enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	Percentage of persistent absentees
sess_auth_appointments	Number of medical appointments sessions
sess_auth_appointments_rate	Rate of medical appointments sessions
sess_auth_excluded	Number of excluded sessions
sess_auth_excluded_rate	Rate of excluded sessions
sess_auth_holiday	Number of authorised holiday sessions
sess_auth_holiday_rate	Rate of authorised holiday sessions
sess_auth_illness	Number of illness sessions
sess_auth_illness_rate	Rate of illness sessions
sess_auth_interview	Number of interview sessions
sess_auth_interview_rate	Interview rate
sess_auth_other	Number of authorised other sessions
sess_auth_other_rate	Rate of authorised other sessions
sess_auth_reg_performance	Number of regulated performance sessions
sess_auth_reg_performance_rate	Regulated performance rate
sess_auth_religious	Number of religious observance sessions
sess_auth_religious_rate	Rate of religious observance sessions
sess_auth_study	Number of study leave sessions
sess_auth_study_rate	Rate of study leave sessions
sess_auth_temp_reduced_timetable	Number of temporary reduced timetable sessions
sess_auth_temp_reduced_timetable_rate	Temporary reduced timetable rate
sess_auth_totalreasons	Number of authorised reasons sessions
sess_auth_totalreasons_rate	Rate of authorised reasons sessions
sess_auth_traveller	Number of traveller sessions
sess_auth_traveller_rate	Rate of traveller sessions
sess_authorised	Number of authorised absence sessions
sess_authorised_percent	Authorised absence rate
sess_overall	Number of overall absence sessions
sess_overall_percent	Overall absence rate
sess_overall_totalreasons	Number of overall reasons sessions
sess_overall_totalreasons_rate	Rate of overall reasons sessions
sess_possible	Number of sessions possible
sess_q_la_arrangements	Number of sessions recorded as unable to attend because of access arrangements
sess_unauth_holiday	Number of unauthorised holiday sessions
sess_unauth_holiday_rate	Rate of unauthorised holiday sessions
sess_unauth_late	Number of late sessions
sess_unauth_late_rate	Rate of late sessions
sess_unauth_noyet	Number of no reason yet sessions
sess_unauth_noyet_rate	Rate of no reason yet sessions
sess_unauth_other	Number of unauthorised other sessions
sess_unauth_other_rate	Rate of unauthorised other sessions
sess_unauth_totalreasons	Number of unauthorised reasons sessions
sess_unauth_totalreasons_rate	Rate of unauthorised reasons sessions
sess_unauthorised	Number of unauthorised absence sessions
sess_unauthorised_percent	Unauthorised absence rate
sess_x_covid	Number of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
sess_x_covid_rate	Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
sess_y_exceptional	Number of sessions recorded as exceptional circumstances
young_carer	Young Carer - Filter by characteristic

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Footnotes

1. Total includes state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools.
2. Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances are included as possible sessions in 2020/21 and 2021/22 only, but not as an absence within absence rates.
3. Data on absence rates for young carers is available for the first time from 2022/23. As this is a new data collection, we expect the quality of the data returns to improve over time as the collection becomes established. All schools (except nursery) must send this information as part of the Spring school census, but the recording and handling of the information is at the school’s discretion. Not all young carers will be identified as such to their school, and therefore will not be identified in the statistics.

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