Claim: A hundred-thousand pupils have failed to return to school full time despite classrooms reopening in March 2021.
Fact-check: Pandemic school attendance: fact checked - Full Fact
Verdict: the centre for social justice, found 93,514 pupils missed more than 50% of school sessions between september to december 2020 so this is unrelated to the reopening of schools in march. before the pandemic the figure was about 60,000.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00