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Attending to attendance

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This week has been my first as Chair of the Educational Achievement Policy Committee and I have been reflecting on the busy education landscape ahead as children and young people start the new school term.
Pupils are returning to school after the summer holidays. Picture: Lucie Carlier
Pupils are returning to school after the summer holidays. Picture: Lucie Carlier

In the past six months alone we have had a white paper and green paper land, all whilst education settings are rightly focussing on recovery. With the schools white paper we are now seeing some of the reforms begin to be implemented. There is much to digest in the paper with significant implications for local authorities, but I wanted to use this blog to focus on attendance.

The schools white paper sets a clear ambition for local education systems to work together to improve children’s attendance at school and to work in a more integrated way to support those children who are missing more than half of their school sessions.

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