Education Welfare Service

How we support our schools

Working in partnership with schools to develop strategies to raise school attendance and reduce persistent absence.
Providing advice and guidance on all aspects of school attendance issues.
Completing 12 weeks of fast-track interventions including the use of parenting contracts on school attendance referrals
Developing mediation partnerships between home and school
Facilitating case conferences
Creating paperwork around school attendance for all schools to use.
Providing training on Penalty Notices and other school related functions
Using statistical analysis and data as a means of targeting resources and identifying specific school related issues
Having a dedicated specialist Education Welfare Officer, working as part of the MASH team
Having a dedicated specialist Education Welfare Officer working as part of the Virtual School
Termly one to one meetings with Head Teachers or Attendance Leads
Termly Cluster Attendance Meetings to disseminate key information about attendance issues