This release, published by the Department for Education, provides information on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in: - state-funded primary schools - state-funded secondary schools - state-funded special schools It includes information on: - reasons for absence - persistent absentees - pupil characteristics Absence information for pupil referral units is based on pupil level absence data collected via the school census. The technical note explains the statistics. Information for London Borough of Barnet can be obtained by carrying out a search query on individual datasets