There are currently 1.7 million children persistently absent from school, missing weeks, months or even years of their education and severely affecting their future life chances.
School leaders know more than most that there are no silver bullets or quick fixes to solving high levels of absence. Tackling the school attendance crisis will require a huge multi-agency, holistic approach over a sustained period of time.
School-Home Support have developed a new toolkit to rise to this challenge and provide guidance for school leaders on developing their school attendance policy, with a particular focus on building strong relationships with families to understand and tackle barriers to good school attendance.