Children Missing Education

Welcome to Sefton's Children Missing Education (CME) Guidance 2023.

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The 2016 DfE Statutory Guidance for Children Missing Education provides a clear definition for missing in education:

“All children of compulsory school age who are not on a school roll, nor being educated otherwise (e.g. at home, privately or in alternative provision) and who have been out of any educational provision for a substantial period of time”