CHILDREN in Scotland missed nearly a million days of school due to unauthorised holidays in 2016-17, according to new analysis by Scottish Labour.

Figures showed that 0.7 per cent of pupils missed school due to unauthorised holidays in the last year, up from 0.5 per cent in 2014-15.

Labour calculate this amounts to 910,272 lost school days last year. When truancy and other forms of unauthorised absence are included, the total is two million, the party said.