Education Welfare Services (EWS)

What EWS can do

What more can the EWS do to ensure good attendance?

Regular attendance is a prerequisite for educational achievement and where attendance difficulties exist these should be resolved through a partnership of schools, governors, parents, pupils and the LEA support services working together to address the problems.

The Service works to support schools in developing and implementing attendance strategies to suit the individual needs of their institution. These may include:

advice and guidance to pupil and parents to encouraging good attendance;
the production of leaflets to support this guidance;
individual work with parents and/or pupils;
group work with parents and/or pupils;
good/improved attendance assemblies;
certificates to recognise good/improved attendance;
support for pupils at transition;
support for the development and implementation of "Peer listening project"
In Service Training (INSET) for register keeping and for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT);
advice on developing and refining school attendance and related matters;
attending school based meeting where there is a perceived need i.e. Pastoral Support Programmes (PSP) where attendance is an issue; reinstatement meetings following fix-term exclusions; general/individual pupil/parents meeting to address attendance and related matters;
attendance at meeting for new parents to promote the benefits of good school attendance;
lateness monitoring
surgeries for pupils identified as needing EWO support - these may take the form of an allotted time when the EWO will be available to see pupils on an individual basis; in small groups; with their parents or with a member of staff.