This half day masterclass has been designed to support schools with tackling persistent and severe absence. You’ll leave with a full understanding of your obligations as well as practical strategies that you can implement straight away.
“Where absence escalates and pupils miss 10% or more of school (equivalent to 1 day or more a fortnight across a full school year), schools and local authorities are expected to work together to put additional targeted support in place to remove any barriers to attendance and reengage these pupils.”
Working together to improve school attendance 2022
“Persistent absence impacts attainment and children’s safety, with 90% of young offenders persistently absent”
Opportunity for all – strong schools with great teachers for your child white paper
Tackling Persistent and Severe absence is a top priority for the Government. Since the pandemic more evidence has come to light about the numbers of children who are persistently absent and, in many cases, severely absent, including those children not in school at all.
Schools cannot tackle this alone. In this half day work shop you will look at the expectations placed on schools, local authorities, governing bodies and academy trusts in the new guidance Working together to improve school attendance to support these children back into education.
Key Learning Objectives
This course will enable you to:
Keep up to date with the changes to guidance relating to school attendance, as well as changes proposed for the future
Better understand persistent absence and how this links with attainment
Identify underlying factors that contribute to attendance problems
Use data to understand the absence problems facing your school
Understand the implications of the ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance on persistent and severe absence
Familiarise yourself with proven best practice in tackling this wide-spread issue
Facilitator
Victoria Franklin is an Attendance Management Consultant working across all phases of education with a remit to raise whole school attendance. Victoria qualified from Bristol University as a social worker with a focus on education and has 30+ years of working in education settings including Local Authorities/Multi Academy Trusts and schools. Victoria has developed systems and procedures to help organisations become more effective in the management of attendance. (Including several Local Authorities holding authority wide specialist responsibility for school attendance improvement and data analysis.)
