school attendance

Families will receive targeted support to improve school attendance with new advice and innovative interventions for schools this term.

Schools are being advised to work in partnership with councils and consider targeted family support or home visits where there are barriers to attending school.

This is part of a package of new and innovative measures to ensure that more children are...

New consultation to end postcode lottery in how schools manage avoidable absence 

From: Department for Education , Robin Walker MP , and The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP

Published 25 January 2022

New proposals to tackle the postcode lottery of avoidable absence in schools have been announced by the government today.

A new consultation proposes that all schools have robust...

Leading experts come together to supercharge efforts to improve school attendance

From: Department for Education , Robin Walker MP , and The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP

Last week The Education Secretary hosted the first meeting of leading experts working with children to improve school attendance.

All members of the new attendance alliance pledged to engage with their members,...

Government attendance advisors to start work helping local areas and school trusts put new plans in place to increase attendance

From: Department for Education and Robin Walker MP

As part of the Education Secretary’s commitment to make school attendance his top priority, new expert attendance advisers with decades of first-hand experience are to begin work to reduce pupil absence....