Transparency data

Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status

Data examining if girls are missing school because they cannot afford sanitary towels or tampons.

Applies to England

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Examination of school absence data for evidence that disadvantaged girls are not attending school due to ‘period poverty’.

Period poverty is a term used to explain that some people cannot afford the cost of female sanitary products.

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Published 15 March 2018

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