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Supporting schools with attendance and long term absences
- Date: June 13, 2024
- Time: 13:30 – 15:30
- Cost: BSA Full Member – £110, BSA Affiliate Member – £165, Non-member – £220
- Audience: All boarding staff
- Platform: Zoom (online) – Half-Day Seminar
Course outline
Schools have noticed an increasing issue around pupil absence, both ad hoc and persistent. This gentle trend pre-Covid has accelerated in recent years. This half day seminar aims to give context to the issue to help schools identify if they have an issue. We will then look at strategies schools can employ both internally and in working with external partners.
Training topics will include:
- The national absence picture and patterns and trends from the boarding sector
- Using the Early Help framework for dealing with EBSA (emotionally based school absences).
- Strategies for engaging help from the local authority
- Case studies
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the national and boarding specific context around pupil absence
- Writing a clear school attendance policy
- Using the escalation policy for the local safeguarding board.
Speaker:
Michelle Lucas-Halliwell, Director of Pupil Welfare, Cheltenham College
Michelle is the Director of Pupil Welfare for Cheltenham College, a co-educational day and boarding school in the centre of Cheltenham. Before that, she was Head of Welfare and DSL at Rendcomb College in the Cotswolds. Michelle is a trainer for Mental Health First Aid and she has also been a key note speaker on the use of mindfulness in schools.
