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Press release on school attendance and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. For young people on Free School Meals, the pace is even slower, with absence rates unlikely to return to their pre-pandemic levels until 2031.
October 2025
More than 30 parent groups, school trusts, charities and campaigners back new campaign for inclusive school reform, led by Impetus and The Difference.
September 2025
A major new report published by Impetus and Public First, warns persistent school absence has become endemic and embedded as a cultural norm, with the online world driving real-world school absenteeism.
September 2025
Press release on the Government's statistics on the number of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) in August 2025.
August 2025
Press release on the Government's statistics on pupil absence in schools in England, autumn 2025.
August 2025
A blog on the ways to reduce the drivers of exclusions and equipping schools with alternative ways of working with children at risk of being excluded.
July 2025
This report from the Who is Losing Learning Coalition draws experience and insight from education experts in shaping evidence-backed solutions to combat lost learning. Their collective expertise has fueled this Solutions Report – packed with actionable policy recommendations to tackle the school engagement crisis.
March 2025
Impetus announces new portfolio partnerships with Co-op Academies Trust and The Two Counties Trust, through the Engage Fund which is dedicated to improving outcomes for young people who have been or are at risk of being excluded from school.
October 2024
This report, produced as part of the work of the Who is Losing Learning? Coalition, explores the rising tide of lost learning, and sets out a strong economic case to invest in reducing escalations. We introduce an ‘exclusions continuum’ that brings together different datasets and presents an overview of the rising prevalence of children losing learning, whether through absence, suspension, internal exclusion or the 11 other types of lost learning we have identified.
September 2024
The Education Policy Institute's report, commissioned by Impetus, identifies a “suspension employment gap", with young people who are suspended at secondary school experiencing a range of poorer outcomes in late adolescence and early adulthood, compared with those who are not suspended.
August 2024
A new report published by the Education Policy Institute, commissioned by Impetus, identifies a “suspension employment gap", with young people who are suspended at secondary school experiencing a range of poorer outcomes in late adolescence and early adulthood, compared with those who are not suspended.
August 2024
Streets of Growth, School of Hard Knocks and Empire Fighting Chance will receive a package of support including unrestricted funding.
March 2024
The Education Policy Institute's report, commissioned by Impetus, identifies a “suspension grades gap", with young people who experience even a single suspension, or temporary removal from secondary school, less likely to pass crucial GCSEs in English and maths.
March 2024
A report on the causes of attendance crisis, in first investigation of its kind, spoke to parents across the country.
September 2023
For the first time, the majority of suspensions are of children living in poverty, widening the poverty gap in lost learning.
September 2023
New partnership with The Henry Smith Charity to back charities tackling school exclusions
May 2021