Full Description
First Published in 2004. This pack on tackling truancy in schools is specifically written for use by teachers and for other caring professionals in the field, such as, education welfare officers, education social workers and educational psychologists. It brings together in twenty-four concise units the latest knowledge and good practice in the prevention and combating of truancy and other forms of non-attendance at school. Some units focus on understanding the causes and issues involved in truancy while others focus on the Government's latest initiatives. The ideas contained in the units are specifically designed to help schools, LEAs and other caring professionals meet the Government's new targets for reducing truancy. In order to help readers make the best use of the pack and its materials: each unit begins by providing a summary of its contents; each unit ends with a range of professional development questions or tasks which can be undertaken during training events. The pack can be read alongside Ken Reid's book Truancy and Schools, also published by Routledge.
Contents
Aims of the Handbook Acknowledgements
Unit 1 The Outcomes of Truancy
Unit2 Types of Truancy
Unit 3 Categories of Truants
Unit4 Incidence, School and Regional Differences
Unit 5 Recent Themes on Truancy and Absenteeism
Unit 6 Parents and Schools
Unit 7 The Social Causes of Truancy
Unit 8 One-parent Families, Pupils and Schools
Unit 9 The Educational Causes of Truancy
Unit 10 Improving School Attendance: The Use of School-based Review
Unit 11 The Use of Surveys: Designing a Questionnaire on Attendance
Unit 12 School Policy Documents on Attendance
Unit 13 Practical Ideas for Schools
Unit 14 Teachers, Teaching and Truancy
Unit 15 A Five-year Project to Improve Attendance
Unit 16 A School Improvement Project on Attendance
Unit 17 OFSTED and Improving School Attendance
Unit 18 OFSTED: Guidelines on Attendance and Behaviour
Unit 19 New Initiatives on Truancy and Attendance
Unit 20 Truancy and Exclusion
Unit 21 Attendance and the Use of Records of Achievement
Unit 22
The Use of Work Placement Schemes
Unit 23 The Role of the Education Welfare Service
Unit 24 An Annual Report on Attendance in a Local Education Authority
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
