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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anna Davis

Tell-tell signals of truancy: was your child in for day one?

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(Picture: PA Wire)

Schools should intervene to help children who miss one of the first days of the new school term because they are more likely to go on to have high levels of absence, the children’s commissioner warned on Thursday.

New analysis of data from school registers has identified “red flags” that can alert schools to children who risk slipping into regular absence.

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