Professionals

You said, We did for schools and partners (2023-2024)

You 2023-2024 Annual School and Partner Satisfaction Survey Analysis ‘You said, we did’ (115 Responses). Schools 91 responses – 99% either very satisfied (81/91) or satisfied (9/91) with the service. 1% were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. Partners – 24 responses – 100% very satisfied (24/24). This is the first year that we have sent out […]

Success Stories

Welcome to Sutton Virtual School’s Success Stories! We understand that for some of our young people, identifying a career to progress towards can be difficult – especially as there are so many choices! We will regularly update this page, with a range of resources to support you in your decisions, including aspirational careers videos and […]

Sutton Education Wellbeing Service

Mental Health Support Team: The Domestic Abuse (DA) Team Our team provides early intervention mental health support within the school setting to 12 Sutton schools who are part of the DA cluster. The team is a part of the wider Education Wellbeing Service. Comprised of a multidisciplinary team, Sutton DA MHST brings together expertise from […]

Meet the team

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

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 70 schools (41 Primary schools, 15 Secondary, 4 special schools, 4 independent special schools, 2 PRU’s and 4 independent schools). 42,861 pupils in Sutton for the academic year 2024/2025, 39,140 of which are of compulsory school age. Pupil Absence Rates by academic year for London Borough of Sutton Rates of school […]