Professionals

Meet the team

The Autism Service is made up of two part-time Advisory Teachers for Autism (Alex Cozens and Rebecca Duffus), and one part-time Autism Specialist (Asma Jacobs). The extensive support we provide is further enhanced by the Cognus Autism Champions.

Sutton Independent Travel Training Workshop

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

The Sutton Independent Travel Training Workshop is coming to Cognus! This is a great opportunity for young people to meet the travel trainers, engage in travel roleplay, draw home to school or college map routes, learn about travel safety, and take part in a Q&A! They can even apply on the day for additional travel […]

Fri 5 April, 2024, 10:00am -

Cantium House
Railway Approach
Wallington
SM6 0DZ
(opposite Wallington Station)

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.

Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions

The London Borough of Sutton’s policy for Educating children with emotional, wellbeing and health related needs who cannot attend school defines the policy, organisation, and arrangements for cooperating with parents and health professionals to ensure children and young people with medical conditions have full access to education. The policy identifies how the local area partnership […]

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 […]