Request 101004069361

Please provide the following:

1. For each of the academic years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25, the number of children of compulsory school age recorded by the authority as missing from education.

2. For each of those years, of the children at (1), the number subsequently located and re-engaged in education.

3. For each of those years, of the children at (1), the number who remained untraced at the end of that academic year.

4. Whether the authority maintains a register or database of children missing from education and, if so, which data fields it records.

5. A copy of the authority's current policy or written procedure for identifying and following up children missing from education.