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ISBN 0 7559 5295 2
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Contents

1. Introduction, background and context

2. Managing attendance and absence
School policies and procedures
Wherever learning takes place
Providing for pupils during long-term illness
Education outwith school
High expectations
Registration and recording lateness
Immediate action when absence is noted
Children missing from education
Follow up on absence
Attendance beyond school leaving age
Stages of support
Medical and dental appointments

3. Managing authorised absence
Authorised absence
Children with complex lives
Exclusion from school
Different lives, different needs
Diverse school communities
Family holidays

4. Managing unauthorised absence
Unauthorised absence
Parents' priorities
Casual truancy
Chronic truancy - unhappy at school?
Chronic truancy - unhappy for other reasons?
Caught up with other influences
Substance misuse
Long-term exceptional domestic circumstances
Motivation

5. Promoting attendance - school, community and authority initiatives
Authority and school objectives
Raising the profile
Community partnership
Police partnership initiatives

6. Pastoral care

7. Additional support
Additional Support for Learning
Supporting the care and welfare of children and child protection
Personal support in schools

8. Multi-agency assessment/planning/review

9. Measures for compulsory compliance
Attendance orders
Parenting orders
Referral to children's hearings
Anti-social behaviour orders; intensive support and monitoring services

10. Attendance and absence data recording and management
Recording and coding
Using data effectively
Recording and coding guidance

11. Resources and further information

Responses by 27 February 2007 to
laura.meikle@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
tracy.o'hanlon@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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