Publication of pupil absence tables

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Department for Education should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Department for Education,

Would you, please, inform the first year of publication of the Pupil Absence in Schools in England? What was the reason to start publishing such information? Who did the publication of the information aim at? Which act obliged its publication?

Why is the absence information not included in the performance tables?

Yours faithfully,
Izabela Correa