Katherine Sangster: “Voices that promote intolerance and conspiracy are increasingly hard to ignore.”

These figures are deeply shocking. Far from keeping The Promise, progress for looked after children and young people is actually going in the backwards.

This would help to gather data on absences so that targeted interventions can be made to support young people re-engage.

Young people are being failed and the Promise made to them is being broken.

Too many kids and families are being let down by an education system that doesn’t work for them.