CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION

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CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION
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Missing Children and Children Missing Education

• Role of Children Missing Coordinator
• Local Authority Procedures for Missing Children
  and Children missing Education
• Removal from School Roll
• DfES School to School Website

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CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION

• DfES Target Strategic Framework Document (2002)
• By 2005 ensure that the robust multi agency
  systems are in place in each local authority to
  identify, track children missing from education
  or at risk of doing so.
• Recommendations of the Laming Inquiry Re
  Victoria Climbié
• Lord Laming (2003) recommended that
• Front line staff in all agencies, which
  regularly come into contact with children and
  families take basic details the name of the
  childs school if of compulsory school age any
  gaps in such information should be passed to the
  relevant authority
• Para 17.97

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Children Missing Education Policy This guidance
is intended to inform all agencies in order
to identify, maintain contact and re-engage
children living in Bedfordshire that are missing
education identify and maintain contact with
children that are living in Bedfordshire at risk
of missing education track children that move
out of Bedfordshire until such a time as they are
known elsewhere.
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• The Children Missing Education policy relates to
  all children and young people who are
• not on a school roll or being educated otherwise
• registered at school but, have not attended
  school or an alternative education provision for
  four weeks or more
• registered at school but their family has moved
  without providing a forwarding address or details
  of a new school.

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• Children and young people go missing from school
  for a wide variety of reasons. These can include
• failing to start appropriate provision and hence
  never entering the system
• ceasing to attend, due to exclusion (e.g. illegal
  unofficial exclusion) or withdrawal
• failing to complete a transition between
  providers (e.g. being unable to find a suitable
  school place after moving to a new local
  authority area).

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CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION

• CME Policy EWS Attendance Manual
  (Improving Attendance)
• Both circulated to schools, and available from
  Bedfordshire On Line (Beds CC) website
• Contains all procedures and forms for CME and
  Missing Children

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CME Statistics

• September 06-April 07 379 Referrals
• 331 Resolved 48 Open Cases
• Referred by - 233 Education
• 59 Out of County Agency
• 56 Health
• 15 Social Services
• 8 Traveller
  Education
• 8 Police, YOS, Connexions

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CME Statistics Open Cases April 07

• 23 No School Place
• 15 School Refusal
• 4 Informal Exclusions
• 4 Missing under investigation
• 2 Elective Home Education Refused

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CME Resolved Cases - Timescales
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CME - Missing

• Sept 06-April 07 74 Children reported missing
  to EWO and CME Co-ordinator
• 60 located
• 14 not found placed on Missing Database
• Further searches will be made, removed at end of
  statutory education age, or if found.

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School Actions

• School aware of child not on any school roll
  refer to CME Co-ordinator
• Child not attending your school regularly refer
  to EWO
• Child/family missing school investigates. If
  not found after 10 days absence - refer to EWO
• Child leaves your school complete Removal from
  Roll form, send to EWO

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CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION

• REMOVAL FROM ROLL
• Attendance Manual Pages 12, 13, 14 - Education
  (Pupil Registration) Regulations 2006
• Circular H/04/54 1st November 2004
• Removal from Roll forms
• DFES S2S WEBSITE
• Bedfordshire Moves
• - Code MMMMMMM
• - Code XXXXXXX

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CME Development

• Analysis of gaps
• Identify areas for improvement
• Development of databases
• Publicity and awareness
• DfES requirements including
• School to School Website
• National tracking

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CME Contacts

• Beds CC Internet (under EWS) e form CME
• Phone [phone] (42400)
• E mail - childrenmissingeducation_at_bedscc.gov.uk
• Post County Hall
• Fax [phone]
• Current contact Helen Manley or main EWS office

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CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION