Behaviour and Attendance Network Meeting

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KEY STAGE 3 National Strategy
Behaviour and Attendance Network Meeting
June 14th 2004 June 15th 2004
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Session objectives

• to facilitate the sharing of good practice with
  regard to attendance matters
• to support behaviour and attendance leaders in
  improving whole school attendance

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Effective use of data

• The rate of offending by young people who truant
  school is three times higher than by those who do
  not truant
• Source Policy Research Bureau, 2001
• School truants are 6 times more likely to be
  unemployed
• Only 10 of persistent truants achieve 5 A- C
  compared with 58 of non truants

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Effective use of data

• The average child will miss the equivalent of
  half a school year by the age of 15
• Last year (2002/2003) 1,796,000 pupil sessions
  were missed. This is equivalent to 4 empty schools

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Link between Attendance and Attainment

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The link between attendance and attainment
Attendance 5 A- C
93.5 and above 74.3
92.5- 93.49 60.4
88 and below 26.7
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Your school in context

• All maintained secondary schools 2002/ 2003
  (2001/2002)
• Authorised absence 7.21 (7.63)
• Unauthorised absence 1.07 (1.09)
• Lancashire secondary schools 2002/2003
  (2001/2002)
• Authorised absence 7.15 (7.75)
• Unauthorised absence 0.82 (0.82)

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• Further resources are available from our website
• www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/ks3/
• behaveattend
• Also
• www.rizer.co.uk
• www.mychildatschool.com
• www.dfes.gov.uk/schoolattendance