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Ahead of the 2025 Spending Review, School-Home Support (SHS) welcomes the Government’s ambition to tackle the school attendance crisis, but warns about how school cuts may damage efforts by school leaders to address the crisis. 

We are delighted to announce that School-Home Support’s ‘Champions for Children’ 2025 fundraising campaign, in conjunction with The Childhood Trust and fuelled by the Big Give, is now open for you to make a donation! 

In this edition of our Expert Series we hear from Zoe Dempsey, a School-Home Support practitioner based in West Yorkshire, sharing her expertise on supporting families who are experiencing poor housing as a barrier to school attendance

The 2025 Opportunity Index published by The Sutton Trust published last week offers a unique constituency by constituency perspective on the level of educational and employment opportunities across England.

It’s encouraging to see the Government make the link between mental wellbeing and school attendance and provide additional resources to help schools. But we’re still concerned that these measures will focus on the child in school and not the wider family.