MissingSchool recognises that significant school absence for kids can be caused by illness and treatment, relating to Arthritis, Asthma, Blood Disorders, Brain Injury, Burns, Cancer, Crohn’s Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Diabetes, Eating Disorders, Epilepsy, Heart/Liver/Kidney Disease, Injury, Rare Diseases, and Transplants. But there are many more illnesses and we need to understand more about school absence patterns for specific illnesses. Because the failure to maintain academic continuity and engagement with teachers and peers leads to many of the problems kids experience when they return to school.