Explained: Why are so many children missing school?

Children all over the UK are missing school following the pandemic. Why are so many persistently absent - and what's being done to solve the issue?

Sky's People and Politic correspondent Nick Martin explains all you need to know.

Produced by Jasmine Kaur.

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[snsn]

Schools need to start focusing on teaching, leave politics out of schools and allow parents to do the parenting.

[el-bktw]

This Money gets spent on stupid things that's the trouble. The catch up lessons my daughter spent doing knitting instead of catching up on missed subjects like English maths & science. Teachers are clearly fed up. Again in my school something so silly that I could have sorted out with her tutor is now having to go to the head because I can't seem to get her tutor to pick up & academies are being run with an iron fist instead of leveling with the teenagers. Teenagers rebel. It's built in them to behave like that. Being unfair towards them on silly things is going to result in them not wanting to be there!

[TianaDiGiacomo]

Don’t want your future employees getting the idea of being their own boss . I’m sure they spent that 2 mill quickly

[American.Patriot.]

Is Britain’s education system, one of the worst in the advanced world?

[COVID_Is_Not_Over_Yet]

It’s sad that people are forcing them so hard to go to school

[sasamichan]

Its the fall out of COVID, Social Distancing, CRT, Trans Rights and Guns people feel safer at home or in privet schools. A few solutions come to mind depending on if we want to move more right or more left, but right now we're kind of floundering.

[jetblakink]

The clever one's have worked out over the course of the pandemic, that the current school system was designed for life in the 20th century, and as a result, being forced daily to attend a pointless, often bullying environment, to learn lessons that are not teaching modern 21st century skills for progress in today's online world, is just a waste of everyone's time.

[techtinkerin]

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