Aussie students with poor health at risk of education gap

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More than a million Australian school children risk being left behind at school, because of absence due to long periods of illness and chronic pain.

Campaigners addressing this simmering issue, claim it’s resolvable if policy was implemented to combine educational and health approaches.

Missing School is a nationwide not-for-profit, started twelve years ago by parents with children at risk of disconnecting from education because of poor health and related absenteeism. 

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