Government health officials are concerned that tens of thousands of children have not returned to school almost one year after classrooms first reopened, leaving them vulnerable to “falling below the radar and getting lost in the system”.
Around 100,000 children failed to return to the classroom last spring following the mass reopening of schools, The Independent has been told, with scientific advisers to Downing Street concerned that these high rates of absenteeism are still continuing to this day.
