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Our Partners

We work in partnership with Harrow School (Lumina) and Homefield Prep to provide tuition to our children. We have had over 30 young people receive tuition through this scheme since 2021. Lumina Tutoring with Homefield, Harrow and Sutton Virtual School – ISC (schoolstogether.org) Welcome | Homefield Preparatory School Lumina Tutoring Sutton Virtual School also work […]

Autism Advice Session for Sutton Families – 09/02/2024, 1.00pm-4.00pm

Themes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe, Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)Audience: Families

Would you like to talk about your young person and get some new ideas or strategies? Pending availability, you will be allocated a 30 minutes slot on Microsoft Teams between the session times below. Please book by emailing theautismservice@cognus.org.uk

Fri 9 February, 2024, 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Sessions will be booked in 30 minute slots, and held via Microsoft Teams

Parent Workshop on Puberty 31/01/2024

Themes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe, Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)Audience: Families

Join us for an online Parent Workshop on Puberty on Wed Jan 31, 2024, at 4pm. This workshop, delivered by the Autism Service and Clinical Psychology Service is designed to help parents navigate the challenges and changes that come with their child’s puberty journey. During this interactive session, we will discuss various topics related to […]

Wed 31 January, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:30pm

VIRTUAL, VIA ZOOM

Help at Hand service by The Children’s Commissioner

Help at Hand is the Children’s Commissioner’s advice and assistance service for children in care, children who have a social worker or are working with social services, children living away from home and care leavers. Children, young people, or their advocates can get in touch with Help at Hand for free by phone, website or email.

Accountability

Our objectives and delivery plan are overseen by the Strategic Attendance Group (SASG) who will meet every three months. We report to both the Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (LSCP) for assurance, and the Education Leadership Group (ELG) for accountability and strategic decision making. Feeding into the SASG will be a number of networks that bring […]

Our progress so far

Since the release of the Working together to improve school attendance guidance, May 2022, we have been working hard to bring about positive change and improvements to attendance. So far we have: What is working well Attendance is recognised as high strategic priority within Sutton with a Strategic Attendance Steering Group and a strategy and […]

The Priorities

Whilst it is clear that we need to improve rates of attendance for all children, particularly those who are persistently or severely absent, there are some cohorts whose experiences and circumstances may require an additional focus and include; The overarching priority is to improve school attendance for all pupils. To achieve these the following five […]

The Data

In Sutton we have 66 schools (41 Primary schools, 15 Secondary, 4 special schools, 1 special academy and 1 PRU, 4 independent schools). 17,901 primary aged children and 21,293 secondary age pupils including 6th form 2022/2023 academic year. Pupil Absence Rates by academic year for London Borough of Sutton Rates of school absence have increased […]

Attendance Principles

Sutton recognises that improvements in overall school attendance rates can only be achieved through a truly collaborative approach across the local area multi-agency partnership. A partnership that includes pupils, families, education, health, social care, police, community, and voluntary sector agencies all working together to bring about positive change using solution focused, restorative and trauma informed […]

Our Approach

Improving attendance is everyone’s business. The barriers to accessing education are broad and complex, both within and beyond the school gates, and are often specific to individual pupils and families. We recognise that some children find it harder than others to attend school and therefore at all stages of improving attendance, schools, and partners along […]