A new report by the Centre for Young Lives – commissioned by NCS Trust, and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award – shows how enrichment activities like sports, arts clubs, volunteering, social action and adventures away from home can encourage children and young people at risk of missing school to attend.

The report calls for the introduction of an enrichment guarantee, with a minimum of at least 80 hours enrichment across the academic year, an enrichment premium to create a long-term funding stream for enrichment and argues for the extension of enrichment partnership pilots to schools with high rates of absence.