General Article Nearly 15,000 children in England are missing from education

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Results of a freedom of information (FOI) request, published by leading children’s charity the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), suggest that on any given day as many as 14,800 children are missing education in England.

Of these, over 3,000 are children whose whereabouts are unknown to their scho...

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