Attendance Interventions are broken down into three categories: voluntary, formal and statutory involvement. Our team work with schools to support appropriate consideration of support levels required. Where voluntary support is not having an impact on attendance improvement, schools can consider a more formal support.
Helping parents to access services of their own accord and/or a voluntary whole family plan to tackle the barriers to attendance
A formal attendance contract agreed by the pupil, parent, school and/or local authority Progressing to a legally binding Education Supervision Order in the Family Court if there is nonengagement and deemed necessary
This can be consideration of statutory social care where there are safeguarding concerns or Attendance prosecution.
Where all other routes have failed or are not deemed appropriate, the case should be considered for attendance prosecution in the Magistrates Court (or a FPN for irregular attendance