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Conservative MP Bob Seely claimed on Monday that 100,000 “ghost kids” had disappeared from school rolls during the pandemic. But this is based on out-of-date data that doesn’t actually tell us how many children left school permanently during lockdowns.

does show around 95,000 children were missing education in 2021/22, but we can’t say what effect the pandemic has had on this figure as the data to do so isn’t available.

The “severely absent” category included in the CSJ’s report does not describe children who left school during lockdown and never returned. Instead, it refers to the number of pupilsThis likely includes a proportion of children who did not return to school, but it also includes children whose attendance fell to very low levels.

, she said that there was a group of children who “are not even on any school roll” following national Covid-19 lockdowns, and “we estimate that is between 80,000 and 100,000” children., this was not correct. Ms de Souza’s office told us she"misspoke in the midst of a long, live, on air interview”.: “We have now seen from the 100,000 children who have come off school rolls and disappeared.”

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