Do you know how to improve and develop skills so as to effectively monitor and manage students’ school attendance?
This course provides insights to help you explore and understand roles and responsibilities of schools and local authorities when it comes to students' school attendance. You will access current approaches for keeping pupil attendance registers. By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of attendance as a potential indicator of neglect or abuse and how important it is to monitor CME factors.
Support Individual Children
This course will guide you through the development of your strategy – including identifying any gaps in your school, meeting different needs and tailoring approaches, allowing you to prioritise high quality teaching in practice.
What does the data tell us about school attendance?
The attendance rate across all schools in England was 92.6% in the week commencing 6th February 2023, up from the Autumn term average of 92.1%.
National Teachers Strike that took place on 1st February 2023 had a negative effect on attendance rates. On this day, attendance dropped to 43%, despite 90% of schools remaining open in some capacity.
The latest data also shows the proportion of students who were persistently absent (those who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions). Across the year to date, 23.4% of students were persistently absent – this was driven by high rates of illness towards the end of the Autumn term.
During the course you will learn:
How to..
Understand and use attendance data, define patterns and trends to produce accurate reports
How to..
Demonstrate accurate use of absence and attendance codes and what laws and regulations govern the keeping of pupil registers
How to..
Recognise the reasons for persistent absence (PA) and poor attendance and their relation to SEN, mental health, and refusal to attend school
Course author:
Joanne Sierzega
Central School Attendance and Welfare Service
In October 2015 after almost 16 years of working for and in turn managing a Local Authority Education Welfare Department I, along with two partners, established CSAWS (Central School Attendance and Welfare Service). Member of the Association for Education Welfare Management.
Categories and indicators of poor attendance, safeguarding and children missing school.
“Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a role to play. In order to fulfil this responsibility effectively, all professionals should make sure their approach is child-centred. This means that they should consider, at all times, what is in the best interests of the child.”
(‘Keeping children safe in education’, Department for Education (DfE), 2019)
“All school staff should be aware that abuse, neglect and safeguarding issues are rarely standalone events that can be covered by one definition or label.”
(Keeping children safe in education, 2019)
“There is a considerable impact on the safety and well-being of children and young people who experience domestic abuse both directly and indirectly and the impact of this can be significant in terms of their emotional, behavioural, cognitive and physical wellbeing.”
(Solihull LSCP domestic abuse procedures)
What will you gain by taking part in the course?
New, current threads
During the lectures of this course you will gain full insights and step-by-step guidance that will help you to understand the importance of student attendance and the roles and responsibilities of schools and local authorities to monitor and support children in schools.
New skills
Develop skills to provide inclusive support for children and parents to improve attendance and reduce PA. Gain practical skills to develop a whole school policy approach to improve students attendance. Explore theory and legislation related to keeping a register of all pupils. Identify strategies to support individual children with persistent absence. Learn how to communicate and collaborate with parents, families and local authorities. Demonstrate knowledge of applying ideas into everyday practice.
Practice
The course covers a range of areas related to students’ school attendance. The course will increase the learner’s understanding of legislation related to this area and also introduce suggested practice to individuals working with limited attendance children or CME.
Availability
You will have access to all materials in a convenient form online around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, so you can learn how you want, where you want and when you want by using downloadable resources such as notes, videos, slides, factsheets, assessments and highlighted key points in each course section which will help you stay on track, as well as improve your results.
Certification
Once you have completed the course and passed the course test you will receive a personal document confirming participation in the course.
You will be able to download your certificate of completion from 'my panel' on the UniqSkills platform and share your new skills online with potential employers, and your professional network.
Our course has obtained complete certification from the CPD, demonstrating our dedication to providing excellent education. The accreditation from the CPD serves as evidence of our commitment to delivering high-quality learning experiences. It assures you that our course adheres to the rigorous standards established by the CPD, which is widely recognised as a prestigious measure of excellence in learning and development.
Syllabus:
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Module 1 - Attendance and the law |
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Roles and responsibilities of schools and local authorities |
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The legal framework |
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Parental responsibility |
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Statutory school age |
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The law and enforcement in relation to non-school attendance |
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Code of conduct for issue of penalty notices |
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Roles and responsibilities of schools and local authorities |
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Summary of Module 1 |
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Test |
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Module 2 - Attendance and the law- keeping pupil registers |
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Legal requirements for keeping Pupil Attendance Registers |
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Accurate use of absence and attendance codes |
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Housekeeping and challenging poor register taking |
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Lesson monitoring |
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First day calling/absence procedures |
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Module 3 - Attendance, safeguarding and CME |
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Understanding attendance as a potential indicator or abuse or neglect |
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Children missing education |
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Policy and procedures |
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Module 4 - Developing a whole school policy and approach to improve school attendance |
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School policy |
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Roles and responsibilities |
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Contents |
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Consultation with parents |
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Module 5 - Understanding and using attendance data |
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Individual |
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Groups and whole school |
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Understanding data |
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Identifying patterns and trends |
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Producing reports |
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Module 6 - Attendance and inspection |
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Understanding the Inspection Framework in relation to attendance |
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Pre and post Ofsted |
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Communication |
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Implementation |
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Module 7 - Working with children and families and others to improve attendance and reduce PA |
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Escalating approach |
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Working with parents |
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Home visits |
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Chairing meetings |
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Assessment and action plans |
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Multi agency working |
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Module 8 - Understanding the reasons for persistent absence (PA) and poor attendance |
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Understanding persistent absence as a measure |
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Understanding the reasons for and causes of persistent absence |
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Assessment in complex cases |
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PA and SEN |
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PA and mental health |
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PA and school refusal |
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Module 9 - Addressing concerns about punctuality |
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Recording and monitoring late arrivals |
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Strategies for improving punctuality for individual children |
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Whole school approaches to improving punctuality |
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Module 10 - Reintegration from long term absences |
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Strategies around health |
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Mental health |
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SEN |
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Best practice |
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Specific challenges and issues to address reintegrating from closure |
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Module 11 - Safe and well checks/visits |
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Expansion on home visiting that addresses home visits for safeguarding children |
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Maintaining contact in periods of long absence |
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Specific challenges and issues to address reintegrating from closure |
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