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attendance worries

Hotel california

Hi, just need some advice.

Just received a letter from edu welfare officer who wants to meet to create an attendance plan for my son.  The school records are incorrect but because computer says so they are not accepting my figures.  Nevertheless he has missed school due to anxiety, stress, ill health and on three occasions sent home because school did not follow routines, which I don't believe are accurately recorded.

My question is what do ewo do in such cases.  Take me to court?  

Just to say his studies are not suffering as he continues to be in the top 3 per cent.

Look forward to some advice.  Forgot to say he has asd and a statement

Txs

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  • You should ask what counts as a registration of attendance on a given day. It may be that leaving, even if the school requests it, counts as non-attendance.

    I cannot see anything about this in the Measures for School Attendance and Behaviour document November 2013. Remember this has less to do with your child's best interests, and has more to do with paranoia about children wandering the streets or shoplifting or scaring old ladies.

    But one form of truant involves going to morning registration and then leaving the grounds, or leaving at lunchtime. They may be doing several checks, and not being on all the day's registers counts as all day absence.

    Whereas the school phoning you to take your child home early isn't recorded by the school.

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  • You should ask what counts as a registration of attendance on a given day. It may be that leaving, even if the school requests it, counts as non-attendance.

    I cannot see anything about this in the Measures for School Attendance and Behaviour document November 2013. Remember this has less to do with your child's best interests, and has more to do with paranoia about children wandering the streets or shoplifting or scaring old ladies.

    But one form of truant involves going to morning registration and then leaving the grounds, or leaving at lunchtime. They may be doing several checks, and not being on all the day's registers counts as all day absence.

    Whereas the school phoning you to take your child home early isn't recorded by the school.

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