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 "title": "Children missing education, England",
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 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Official statistics in development",
 "notes": [
  "Children of compulsory school age the council knows are not registered at a school and not receiving suitable education otherwise on the census day in October, as local authorities report them. Collecting these figures became mandatory in the autumn of 2024, and the DfE publishes them as official statistics in development.",
  "The DfE's methodology: “Local authority and regional data has been rounded to the nearest 10, national figures are rounded to the nearest 100.” The rate is the DfE's own, the children on census day by population, as a percentage to one decimal place; the record keeps it in its data.",
  "These are counts on one day each autumn, not the counts across a term that the DfE also gives."
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