Absence rates in schools in East Lothian have failed to return to pre Covid numbers, with more than one in ten pupils still missing from the classroom.
The local authority has introduced additional support staff across its schools to tackle the issue, with every secondary now employing a principal teacher of equity and school and family support workers in identified primary schools.
New figures have show attendance in secondary schools remains a full five per cent below what it was before the pandemic with an estimated 85 per cent attendance rate.
