20 March 2025, 17:34 | Updated: 20 March 2025, 21:06

By Mel Parker

With more children missing school in the UK than ever before, we need to tackle the root cause, not just monitor how it evolves. Without real action, we risk creating a ‘lost generation.'

The solution to absenteeism isn’t more laws to track where children go when they leave school. It’s often about actually repairing the relationship between children, parents, and schools, and offering the most vulnerable children—those at risk of skipping school, being excluded, or falling off the radar—real alternative education options.

This is where technology can make a real-life impact. If the UK wants to be a tech superpower, we must investigate the use of tech to solve real problems in the education system.

Here’s the thing: children missed 11.5 million days........

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