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12 October 2025
Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) is a broad umbrella term used to describe a group of children and young people who experience significant and enduring challenges in attending school due to…
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Texting parents about the number of days of school their child has missed can lead to small improvements in attendance, a study has found. Parents find texts highlighting the number…
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Public First and Impetus calls for ‘a rethink on school absence and how it’s managed’ in their new report. Key findings: Not attending school every day has become the new…
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Heads and teachers have reported their schools are less calm and orderly, while parents are now less likely to support school behaviour policies, according to a government survey. The Department…
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The Department for Education has named the first 21 of 90 new integrated behaviour and attendance hubs set to open in September. And former behaviour tsar Tom Bennett and former…
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The Department for Education (DfE) has just launched a new AI-powered attendance benchmarking tool, now available to all schools in England. The tool is designed to help you quickly and…
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Following’s March’s release of the Education Policy Institute’s (EPI's) Breaking down the gap – the role of school absence and pupil characteristics, the EPI’s Emily Hunt joins Phil Stock from Greenshaw…
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This new Bullying Information Toolkit for Parents and Carers is designed to empower parents and carers with clear, practical guidance on how to advocate for their child. It covers everything from working…
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The Department for Education is seeking views on whether the revised 'Use of reasonable force and other restrictive interventions in schools' guidance supports schools to: Meet their safeguarding duties towards…
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Parents must ensure their children are in school or face the consequences, the education secretary has warned after record numbers of families in England were hit by fines for unauthorised holidays. In…
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Sue Cowley has written a set of blogs on self-regulation in the classroom, which include the following topics: Supporting the development of empathy The importance of agency for self-regulation How…
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Taking a look at absence back in November, found that there had been little change from the previous year at primary, and a slight reduction at secondary. With a full…
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