School Attendance Childrens Services Select Committee Jay Devereux - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

School Attendance Children’s 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 (often reported in the press as truancy) • Persistent

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.

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)

Secondary Absence – 3 year trend Overall Absence Persistent Absence Statistical Statistical England London LBBD England London LBBD Neighbour Neighbour 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 * * * 7.01 * * * 4.80 (prov) *National data will not be available until Feb 2011

Secondary Absence – 3 year trend Authorised Absence Unauthorised Absence Statistical Statistical England London LBBD England London LBBD Neighbour Neighbour 2006/07 6.36 5.88 6.81 6.40 1.50 1.69 2.23 1.33 2007/08 2007/08 5.87 5.87 5.46 6.04 6.01 1.47 1.59 2.20 1.38 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 * * * 4.98 * * * 2.00 (prov) *National data will not be available until Feb 2011

Primary Absence – 3 year trend Overall Absence Persistent Absence Statistical Statistical England London LBBD England London LBBD Neighbour Neighbour 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 * * * 5.38 * * * 1.40 (prov) *National data will not be available until Feb 2011

Primary Absence – 3 year trend Authorised Absence Unauthorised Absence Statistical Statistical England London LBBD England London LBBD Neighbour Neighbour 2006/07 4.66 4.60 5.08 4.87 0.52 0.84 0.79 1.07 2007/08 2007/08 4.69 4.69 4.74 5.03 5.02 0.57 0.92 0.86 1.11 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 * * * 4.08 * * * 1.30 (prov) *National data will not be available until Feb 2011

3 year absence trends - Headlines Secondary Primary • Overall absence has • Reduced overall absence increased by 0.09%. by 0.6%. • Reduced persistent • Reduced persistent absence by 0.42%. absence by 1.6%. • Provisional data for 2009/10 • • Provisional data for 2009/10 Provisional data for 2009/10 predicts significant predicts further improvements in both improvements in both overall absence(0.65%) and overall absence(0.15%) and persistent absence(0.90%). persistent absence(0.50%).

Legal interventions • Penalty Notices. • Court cases. • Educations Supervision Orders. • School Attendance Orders. • School Attendance Orders. • Parenting Orders. • Pupil Registration Regulations 2006. • Truancy Patrols.

Parental prosecutions – 2006/2010 No of Outcomes Cases Conditional Withdrawn Suspended Community Parenting Fine Discharge prison order Order sentence (ancillary) 2006/07 31 23 7 3 0 4 6 2007/08 2007/08 32 32 15 15 12 12 1 1 0 0 5 5 8 8 2008/09 32 12 18 5 0 6 5 2009/10 25 11 14 1 0 0 6 (prov)

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 12 13 13 26 (prov)

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.

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.

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 our authority.

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).

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.

Best Practice – School Example Presentation by; Mr Russell Taylor, Deputy Headteacher, Robert Clack School of Science.