Fill in the Blanks 87-testOnline version 87-test by Farhad Key 1 agreed period figures hardcore Fewer were same period Children who skip school are increasingly on family holidays , government revealed today . children played truant this spring term compared with the spring term last year . Children missed 3m unauthorised days of school last term , compared with 3 . 7m days of school in the same last year . But a group of truants - 6% of the school population - who account for more than three - quarters of all those on unauthorised absence , are more likely to be on a family holiday than they were in the last year . Some 1 . 2% of all absence was for family holidays not by their school last term , compared with 0 . 9% for the same term last year . More than 60% of all absences for illness , the same figure as last year .
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