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Absence - Terminology
Absence is broken down into 4 key types;
- Overall
- Authorised
- Unauthorised (often reported in the press
as truancy)
- Persistent
School Attendance Childrens Services Select Committee Jay Devereux - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
School Attendance Childrens Services Select Committee Jay Devereux - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
School Attendance Childrens Services Select Committee Jay Devereux and Greg Vaughan Attendance and Children Missing Education Absence - Terminology Absence is broken down into 4 key types; Overall Authorised Unauthorised
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DfE definition of persistent absence.
We define a ‘persistent absentee’ as a pupil who, at any point in the year, has accumulated absence at 20% or more of accumulated absence at 20% or more of the available sessions regardless of whether or not any of it is authorised.
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National Overview
- All Local Authorities have an annual target to
reduce the percentage of secondary pupils with Persistent absence
- Children's Plan Goal – all Local Authorities will
have no more than 5% of secondary pupils with have no more than 5% of secondary pupils with persistent absence by 2011.
- Achievement and Attainment tables include
Overall absence and Persistent absence (change from unauthorised)
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Secondary Absence – 3 year trend
Overall Absence Persistent Absence
England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD
2006/07
7.86 7.57 9.04 7.73 6.70 6.30 9.09 6.90
2007/08
7.34 7.05 8.25 7.39 5.58 5.00 7.25 5.76
2008/09
7.21 6.88 8.15 7.16 4.90 4.40 6.45 5.30
2009/10 (prov)
* * * 7.01 * * * 4.80
*National data will not be available until Feb 2011
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Secondary Absence – 3 year trend
Authorised Absence Unauthorised Absence
England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD
2006/07
6.36 5.88 6.81 6.40 1.50 1.69 2.23 1.33
2007/08
5.87 5.46 6.04 6.01 1.47 1.59 2.20 1.38
2007/08
5.87 5.46 6.04 6.01 1.47 1.59 2.20 1.38
2008/09
5.74 5.36 5.80 5.69 1.46 1.53 2.35 1.47
2009/10 (prov)
* * * 4.98 * * * 2.00
*National data will not be available until Feb 2011
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Primary Absence – 3 year trend
Overall Absence Persistent Absence
England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD
2006/07
5.18 5.44 5.86 5.94 1.80 2.00 2.49 2.72
2007/08
5.26 5.66 5.90 6.13 1.66 1.90 2.28 2.66
2008/09
5.30 5.52 5.97 6.03 1.50 1.60 2.15 2.30
2009/10 (prov)
* * * 5.38 * * * 1.40
*National data will not be available until Feb 2011
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Primary Absence – 3 year trend
Authorised Absence Unauthorised Absence
England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD England London
Statistical Neighbour
LBBD
2006/07
4.66 4.60 5.08 4.87 0.52 0.84 0.79 1.07
2007/08
4.69 4.74 5.03 5.02 0.57 0.92 0.86 1.11
2007/08
4.69 4.74 5.03 5.02 0.57 0.92 0.86 1.11
2008/09
4.66 4.56 4.96 4.86 0.64 0.96 1.02 1.17
2009/10 (prov)
* * * 4.08 * * * 1.30
*National data will not be available until Feb 2011
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3 year absence trends - Headlines
Secondary
- Reduced overall absence
by 0.6%.
- Reduced persistent
absence by 1.6%.
- Provisional data for 2009/10
Primary
- Overall absence has
increased by 0.09%.
- Reduced persistent
absence by 0.42%.
- Provisional data for 2009/10
- Provisional data for 2009/10
predicts further improvements in both
- verall absence(0.15%) and
persistent absence(0.50%). predicts significant improvements in both
- verall absence(0.65%) and
persistent absence(0.90%).
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Legal interventions
- Penalty Notices.
- Court cases.
- Educations Supervision Orders.
- School Attendance Orders.
- School Attendance Orders.
- Parenting Orders.
- Pupil Registration Regulations 2006.
- Truancy Patrols.
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Parental prosecutions – 2006/2010
No of Cases
Outcomes
Fine
Conditional Discharge Withdrawn Suspended prison sentence Community
- rder
Parenting Order (ancillary)
2006/07
31 23 7 3 4 6
2007/08
32 15 12 1 5 8
2007/08
32 15 12 1 5 8
2008/09
32 12 18 5 6 5
2009/10
25
(prov)
11 14 1 6
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Penalty Notices – 2006/2010
Outcomes
Number Paid Not Paid Cancelled Outstanding
2006/07 51 17 30 4 2007/08 97 26 55 16 2008/09 108 33 61 14 2009/10 64
(prov)
12 13 13 26
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Examples of Good Practice
Attendance Unit established in Eastbrook School.
- PA reduced by 4.5%
- OA reduced by 1.0%
PA escalation procedures in Robert Clack School.
- PA reduced by 3.0%
- OA reduced by 1.0%
- OA reduced by 1.0%
Year 6-7 transition project.
- 54 PA’s in year 7 09/10 compared to 73 in 08/09.
Reception ‘Attendance Awareness’ meetings for parents.
- 53 PA’s in year 1 09/10 compared to 99 in 08/09.
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Work in progress
- School staff training on tracking vulnerable
groups.
- Revised guidance on holidays in term time.
- Attendance Team remote access to school
attendance data. attendance data.
- GP reporting procedures.
- Pupil Voice – Young Inspectors project.
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Local Authority Best Practice Progress made in Barking and Dagenham has led to us being promoted as an example of good practice. In September 2009 the LA Attendance lead presented to a group of local authorities and the a group of local authorities and the National Strategy on the improvements made to reduce persistent absence across
- ur authority.
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Reflection – what has brought about the improvement.
- Attendance is now widely recognised as a School
Improvement issue.
- Close links with School Improvement Partners.
Attendance and persistent absence trends form part of each schools School Improvement Partner report.
- For the past two years every school in Barking &
Dagenham has reported half termly information to the local authority Attendance Lead using the persistent local authority Attendance Lead using the persistent absence pupil tracking workbook.
- Improvement is being driven by headteachers and senior
leaders in schools.
- Increased parental support and engagement (Common
Assessment Framework).
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Contacts
Jay Devereux Manager, Attendance. Greg Vaughan Manager, Children Missing Education. Ann Jones Group Manager, Education Inclusion. Jane Hargreaves Head of Quality and School Improvement.
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