Going around the country nearly every week, I'm so lucky to meet incredibly talented children, inspirational teaching staff and hard-working parents all striving towards the same goal: to create a world-class education and improve life chances.
That's why I'm in politics, and it's why I'm working to improve attendance in schools.
Since the pandemic, countries around the whole world have faced the growing issue of rising absence in schools.
We've been working on this for over two years, and I'm glad that there are 380,000 fewer children persistently absent or not attending school than last year.
Through expanding attendance hubs and our attendance mentoring scheme, alongside the work by the Attendance Action Alliance, we're making progress, but we will go even further as we work together.
Speaking with the children and teachers at St Christopher's Catholic Primary School in Liverpool this week, I know that if we follow our plan and work together, we can achieve this important ambition.
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We must continue to raise our voices for charter schools! 🙌🏾