Truancy falls 96% as church-school partnership lifts off

Truancy has dropped by a staggering 96% after a Welsh evangelical church launched a new ‘learning hub’ with a nearby school.

The hub was opened in June by Noddfa Evangelical Church and Abersychan Comprehensive School and combines academic teaching and broader ‘Life Skills’. So far, 20 school pupils have registered with the hub.

Noddfa’s pastor, John Funnell, told en: ‘Within four weeks, internal truancy has dropped from over 600 missed lessons a week to just 25.’ That’s a drop of 95.8%.