Term-time holidays: Where most children were absent

In March 2017 we reported on new government figures showing that term-time holidays accounted for a quarter of unauthorised absences from schools in England.

Get the data

• Department for Education: Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015 to 2016 - Underlying data (zip)
• Subset and analysis: 2015-16 figures by local authority for all schools / average rates by region / regions with rates and local authorities
• Subset: 2015-16 absence figures by local authority for all schools (CSV) (raw)
• Subse: 2013-16 absence figures by local authority for all schools (CSV)

Visualisation and interactivity

• Bar chart: Areas with biggest percentage rise in term-time holidays
• Infographic: Unauthorised absences
• Bar chart: Areas with holidays as the highest share of absence
• Interactive map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by region
• Unpublished: Carto version of map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by region
• Unpublished: Fusion Tables version of map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by region
• Unpublished: Interactive map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by local authority

Sources quoted

• The Department for Education
• Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT
• Paul Kelly, chief executive of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions