Q. What do we code a child who attends school but has to go home due to his ADHD behaviours? We also have other students who can’t cope with attending school all day due to their mental health and need to be sent home. Should we use the ‘C’ code for these students or should we code them as ‘I’ for illness?
A. To answer this, I would need to understand if these children have been placed on a reduced timetable or…
Q. I’m hoping you can help me. My daughter is competing in an international cheerleading competition in June. She needs three days off from school. This will be after her SATs. The school is only allowing exceptional circumstances for leave. If this leave were to be granted, could she be marked down as educated off-site? As she is training and performing it’s harder than a P.E lesson. I also know that other children who were taking part in a pantomime were marked down as this.
A. Children who are licensed to take part in performances such as pantomimes would have their absence recorded as a…
Latest Toolkits
May, 2020
Handout – Advice for new attendance officers on working with key colleagues
Form – Attendance data analysis using the national 2018/19 full year data
Form – Action plan for your interactions with other staff
Checklist – Attendance for safeguarding
Checklist – Evaluating attendance: Involvement of parents and pupils
Checklist – Evaluating attendance: Data analysis
Checklist – Evaluating attendance: Leadership and management
Checklist – Evaluating attendance: Levels of attendance
Checklist – Evaluating attendance: Quality of provision
Form – School counselling questionnaire: Suggested evaluation
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March, 2020
