Pupil absence during the heatwave By Natasha Plaister and Katie Beynon, FFT Education Datalab Unless you’ve been living in a (lovely, cool) cave, you’re unlikely to have missed the fact that there was a heatwave last week. Temperatures peaked at 37C and schools around the country closed their doors, with some reports suggesting as many as 1,200 schools were closed at the height of … Read More