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Attendance and School Refusal Twilight

Event Code CPD 24/018
Event type Course
Event categories N/A
Event Summary This twilight session will focus on links between school refusal/avoidance and mental health and/or safeguarding concerns.
Event description This twilight session will explore the links between school avoidance and mental health and not just considering it school refusal.

It will also offer strategies to support reintegrating pupils back into school, maintaining this and appropriate referrals. We will also look at strategies to track data effectively and working effectively with external agencies.

Finally, we will look at how children absent from education and children missing from education are potential indicators of safeguarding concerns.
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Learning outcomes Following this course, you will:
  • Be able to understand and explain the safeguarding concerns around absence from education
  • Be able to support staff to understand the links between school refusal/avoidance and mental health
  • Have strategies to support reintegrating pupils back into school
  • Be able to ensure your attendance tracking systems are effective.
Subject Areas Safeguarding
Key Stages
EYFS Yes KS1 No KS2 No KS3 No KS4 No KS5 Yes 
Type of school Infant / Junior / Secondary / Special
Target Audience
Leadership / Teaching Assistant / Teaching staff
target audience
Event costs
Academy/Other£95.00
Essex LA£95.00
Outside Essex£95.00
Trainers Maria Thomas
Admin contact Training & Development (training@junipereducation.org)
SessionSession DateSession TimeSession VenueMap
Session 1Monday 24 June 202416:00 - 17:30remote delivery via Microsoft Teams