‘Ghost children’ of pandemic have given up going to school

Source: The Times

More than 140,000 children were “severely absent” from school last summer, a report has found, warning that children are at risk of “disengaging with education entirely”.

The report by the Centre for Social Justice, the centre-right think tank, found that rising levels of anxiety meant that many children feared going to lessons, while the cost of living crisis has meant that some families cannot afford to…