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<p>Nearly 12,000 children are officially missing from education, new figures have suggested.</p>
<p>Children&#8217;s charity bosses said the statistic is &#8220;deeply troubling&#8221;, and warned that thousands of vulnerable youngsters could be at risk of harm.</p>
<p>The data, obtained by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, found that 11,911 children are missing from education.</p>
<p>Local authorities were asked how many children are known to them who are not in any kind of education, for example state or private school, or home educated.</p>
<p>The figures reveal large urban areas have the highest numbers of youngsters who are not in schooling.</p>
<p>Leicester has the highest number, with 2,611 children missing from education, according to the TES figures.</p>
<p>Nine other local authorities &#8211; Birmingham, Kent, Bradford, Brent, Sheffield, Southampton, Doncaster and Westminster &#8211; each have more than 360 missing children. Sixty-nine local councils claim to have none missing, the figures suggest.</p>
<p>Enver Solomon, director of policy for the Children&#8217;s Society, told the TES: &#8220;It is vital children don&#8217;t disappear from the school roll. There&#8217;s a danger this could happen to vulnerable pupils if schools just focus on attainment and their welfare is overlooked.&#8221;</p>
<p>Martin Narey, former Barnardo&#8217;s chief executive, told the magazine: &#8220;School is somewhere that every child needs to be every day. For many of our most vulnerable young people it is the only stability they know, the only time when a little chaos is taken out of their lives, the only time when they are required to behave reasonably.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is the one place where poor life expectations can be reversed. So for thousands of children &#8211; inevitably those most in need of education &#8211; to be missing from school is deeply troubling.&#8221;</p>
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