Family-homelessness and child absence from school: How data linkage research has identified and quantified the association in Wales, UK
Ian Thomas · 2024
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Description
Ian Thomas links school and housing records in Wales to measure how family homelessness tracks with missed school. Most earlier numbers came from the United States, whose policies differ sharply. Wales offers a first British test of the link through data linkage.
The study followed pupils in one Welsh council area across four school years, over one hundred thousand pupil-years in all. Children whose families used the housing service missed about ten more half-day sessions a year than peers. Unexplained absences ran double. The gap survived checks for personal and area traits. Thomas urges changes in policy and practice, since absence this size scars learning.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ian Thomas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |