Provider: School-Home Support
Name The SHS: Practitioner Service
Recent Department for Education figures showed there were 67,000 fewer pupil absences in 2013/14, with 233,815 children persistently absent compared with 300,895 in 2012/13.
There are many factors behind the drop in absences, including the work of education charities such as School-Home Support (SHS).
The SHS Practitioner Service aims to get more children and young people into school and ready to learn by intervening early. It is driven by the knowledge that attendance is a key factor determining educational attainment, with persistently absent pupils four times less likely to achieve five A* to C grades at GCSE and more likely not to be in education, employment or training (Neet) at the age of 18.
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