School Covid absences not as bad as feared, says Education Minister

School attendance figures are “moving in the right direction” with nine out of 10 pupils present, the Education Minister has told her Stormont watchdog committee. After earlier concerns that Omicron would cause chaos in classrooms, Michelle McIlveen told MLAs the Department of Education had started to take a daily snapshot of absentee...

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