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Following the restriction of attendance to vulnerable children and children of critical workers only, on-site attendance dropped to 14% in state-funded schools on 13 January and remained at this level on 21 January. During the 2020/21 autumn term, average on-site attendance in state-funded schools was 86%.Around 80% of schools were open in May 2020. This is higher than March to May 2020, when schools were previously asked to open only to children of critical workers and vulnerable children. On 21 January, 99% of state-funded schools were open to children of critical workers and vulnerable children.This is due to heavy snowfall in northern England affecting school open rates on Thursday 14 January. This commentary usually compares Thursday-to-Thursday. Here the commentary compares Thursday 21 January to Wednesday 13 January. State-funded schoolsĭata from Monday 11 January to Thursday 21 January is available in the underlying data. For early years data at local authority level in the 2020/21 autumn term, see the underlying data table 5. From Monday 11 January, schools were asked to complete an updated version of the survey.įor workforce absences in the 2020/21 autumn term, see the ‘Workforce absence in state-funded schools’ section of this publication and the underlying data tables 1C and 1D.

Settings were not required to complete the educational settings survey between 5 and 8 January while the survey was updated to reflect these changes. Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemicįrom 5 January, schools were asked to provide on-site education for vulnerable children and children of critical workers only.The department is continuously reviewing what and how information collected from the survey is disseminated and we will endeavour to publish data at the earliest opportunity. Information shared across government includes variables that we have made a conscious decision not to share more widely at the present moment for a number of reasons including the quality of the data which could misinform or confuse users, however, they may provide useful insight for operational purposes, particularly at a local level. Where we identify misuse of the data we work with those in receipt of the data to understand how it happened and to reduce the likelihood it will happen again. We engage with local users to try to prevent the data being shared inappropriately. The limitations of the data, which include variables with missing values, responses not being validated or issues being thoroughly investigated are highlighted to ensure recipients are aware that decisions should not be made in isolation and the risks of making conclusions based on the data alone. As part of the data share we explicitly highlight that the information is for internal purposes only and should not be shared more widely. We will publish local authority level summaries for future dates on a half-termly basis.ĭata collected from the Education Settings Survey is shared as management information across national and local government for operational purposes. We take the issue of data quality very seriously and we would like to apologise for this error.Įxpansion of publication content in future releases We are contacting known users of this data directly to alert them to this correction. Data used by government as management information (as set out in the ‘data sharing’ section) was unaffected.

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A full list of affected measures and further detail about the cause of this error is available in the ‘Workforce in state-funded schools’ section. The corrected data shows that teaching assistants and other staff have broadly similar absence rates to teachers and school leaders. This data, including the 19 January narrative, were corrected on 28 January.

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The Office for Statistics Regulation, on behalf of the UK Statistics Authority, has reviewed them against several key aspects of the Code of Practice for Statistics and regards them as consistent with the Code’s pillars of Trustworthiness, Quality and Value.Ībsence rates for ‘teaching assistants and other staff’ for the period 12 October to 17 December were corrected on 28 January.Īn error was identified that affected national level absence rates for ‘teaching assistants and other staff’ published in underlying data table 1D and included in the narrative of the 19 January publication. These statistics have been produced quickly in response to developing world events. Further data at national and local authority level is available in the underlying data.

This publication provides a high-level summary of estimates from the Department for Education's education settings survey and local authority early years survey.

A summary of attendance in education settings from Monday 23 March to Thursday 21 January (excluding out of term dates as data not collected) and early years settings from Thursday 16 April to Thursday 21 January.