Attendance

Attendance: MPs want mental health absence code and CAMHS review

Schools should also be compelled to use the daily attendance data collection to 'turn the tide on absence', says...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Schools can’t rebuild parental support for attendance alone

A new report lays bare a collapse in parental support for attendance and the colossal effort needed to put...

JL Dutaut
Jaine Stannard
Attendance

‘I don’t really care anymore’: Parent apathy on attendance laid bare

Report exposes 'fundamental breakdown in the relationship between schools and parents'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

We can’t tackle attendance if we don’t tackle poverty

A 100 per cent attendance target is a blunt tool for fixing systemic problems and will only make matters...

JL Dutaut
Nadeine Asbali
Attendance

Everyone must obsess over full attendance from day one

Ministers must ensure all agencies are held responsible for helping schools to solve the attendance crisis, writes Dame Rachel...

JL Dutaut
Dame Rachel De Souza
Attendance

Attendance is an issue, but it is never the issue

The answer to poor attendance is simple but implementing it is neither quick nor easy, explains Jonathan Roe

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Roe
Attendance

Six policies to get ‘invisible’ looked-after children back to school

First collection of data from the children's commissioner shows nearly 1,500 children with social workers not in school

John Dickens
John Dickens
Attendance

How new attendance guidelines could affect anxious pupils

New guidelines that could come into force from September will mean schools need a new approach for anxious pupils,...

JL Dutaut
Stephanie Smith
Attendance

‘The new epidemic’: Why more pupils are missing school

Absenteeism has become endemic in our schools. The search for solutions is keeping headteachers awake at night but, despite...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill