Claim: 100,000 children have not returned to school since the start of the pandemic.
Fact-check: Figure of 100,000 children missing from school is out of date - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not a current figure, so we can't use it to describe how many pupils have remained absent from school since the start of the pandemic. the centre for social justice found 93,514 pupils missed more than 50% of school sessions between september to december 2020.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2021-07-16T00:00:00