Professionals

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 […]

Sutton’s Attendance Strategy

Attend to Achieve #SchoolTodayFutureTomorrow Sutton’s attendance strategy seeks to address the needs of children and families in Sutton by removing barriers they may face achieving good school attendance. Our goal is to ensure that every child is able to access and thrive in education. We are ambitious for children and dedicated in supporting them to […]

Parents – Home educating a child with SEND support needs

Parents have the right to choose to educate their child at home when their child has SEND support needs. Most needs can be well managed at home by parents, by providing a flexible learning environment and adapting lessons to meet their child’s needs. It is recognised that parents can use different approaches to delivering education […]

DfE – Free school transport explained

On Friday 3rd November, the Department for Education published a blog post on free school travel, aimed at parents: Free school transport explained: From who’s eligible to how it works – The Education Hub (blog.gov.uk). It aims to support parents’ understanding of the eligibility criteria and to answer some commonly occurring questions.

ePEP

We are pleased to announce that the updates to the Sutton Virtual School PEP document are now live. We have designed the new PEP with input from designated teachers, social workers, foster carers, young people and our CLA nurse team. Please ensure you familiarise yourself with the updates and watch the training video which takes […]

National Advocacy Helpline

Since 2015, the Department for Education has commissioned a national advocacy helpline to support the rights of children to be heard. The NYAS ‘Safety Net’ helpline service will continue the national provision of: The service accepts referrals from children and young people, professionals working with young people, friends, families, and carers. The service will be […]

Request Forms

Please click on the links below to download the forms. If you have any questions about completing the forms, please email ep.service@cognus.org.uk Educational Psychology Brochure 2025-2026 Order Form Educational Psychology Brochure 2026-2027 Order Form School request for Educational Psychology involvement 2024-2025 Young persons consent form (16 – 25)

Attendance Graduated Response

Sutton’s Attendance Graduated Response sets out how schools, families and professionals work together to improve school attendance and ensure children and young people receive the support they need to access education. It provides a shared approach across the borough, showing how: The graduated response helps ensure that interventions are proportionate, consistent and focused on understanding […]

Smart Targets

Every PEP must contain three SMART targets that are reviewed at the next PEP. There should always be a SMART target for English / literacy, maths and then another area eg attendance, homework, another subject. Where a child is in KS1 or KS2 there must be a writing SMART target as we know that statistically […]