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OJ Borg investigates the growing number of children who refuse to go to school

Around 93,000 pupils have simply vanished and fallen off school registers since the COVID pandemic began. In addition, last year more than 100,000 children missed at least 50% of the autumn term - and now there are concerns more children will refuse to go to school this year.

It's called Emotionally Based School Avoidance or EBSA, something presenter OJ Borg knows only too well because his eldest child is refusing to go to school. He meets another family going through a similar experience.

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