Have you heard?
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- By John Leese
Steve Wilkinson, President of the Association of Education Welfare Management, who represents those who deliver attendance support in local councils said:
"We welcomed the opportunity to work closely with the DfE to share the vast expertise of our members with improving attendance in schools and other educational provisions.
Putting these measures on a statutory footing helps reinforce the importance of school attendance and the need to ensure families receive the support they need, when they need it, working together to ensure any barriers to attendance for children are removed."
As well as helping to review and add our input into policy decisions and associated guidance linked to Working Together to Improve School Attendance, the new School Attendance Regulations, and the National Penalty Notice Framework, AEWM also collaborated with the DfE on a range of template documents to support Local Authorities implement these changes. These templates are available for all to download and use, but for the full benefits of further resources, discussions with peers within your local region regarding the implementation and best practice, and access to the active members forum and further best practice and template documents, join the AEWM today!
https://www.aewmweb.com/newmembership
Membership is only £35 a year, and members who have joined by the end of April will also gain access to a free annual conference. The next conference take place on Wednesday 15th May 2024. Members can book their place here: https://www.aewmweb.com/agm-training-day-2024 (You need to be logged into this website to be able to book).
Penalty Notice Code of Conduct
The DfE and AEWM have produced a template Penalty Notice Code of Conduct to help ensure local authorities have a code of conduct in place that meets legislative requirements, as well as benefitting from the knowledge, experience and best practice of AEWM members. Sections of the documents are marked to show where a local authority should add information specific to their policies and procedures.
This document can be downloaded via the link below:
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TEMPLATE - Penalty Notice Code of Conduct - Click on "Folder" image to download |
Notice to Improve
The Notice to Improve has been introduced via the Penalty Notice National Framework, as an example of best practice prior to the issuing of a Penalty Notice for Sporadic Poor Attendance. The Notice to Improve is designed to provide parents with a period of time (3 to 6 weeks) to significantly improve attendance and/or seek support. The Notice to Improve could be sent by either local authorities or schools prior to a Penalty Notice being issued by a local authority.
This document can be downloaded via the link below:
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TEMPLATE - Notice to Improve - Click on "Folder" image to download |
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- By Steve Martin
Dear Member
I am sure you are aware that today has been a significant milestone in promoting good school attendance. Your AEWM National Executive Committee (NEC) have been working closely with the DfE’s School Attendance team to ensure that your views and the challenges that you are all experiencing have and will continue to be considered, when drawing up guidance, policies, and revised regulations.
Today the DfE have issued a revised ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ document, to further support and promote good school attendance. This updated version of the guidance will be placed onto a statutory footing in readiness for the 2024/25 academic year. Regulation changes, taking effect from 19th August 2024, will make it mandatory for all state funded schools to share their attendance data with the DfE and local authorities, together with the modernisation of school attendance and admission registers (including updating attendance codes, rules on granting leave of absence and clarity around who can access registers). All of these measures are designed to improve the accuracy of available attendance data and help schools and local authorities to put better, more targeted support in place as early as possible. Today has also seen the launch of a National Code of Conduct for Penalty Notices which will see the end of the postcode lottery experienced by parents for many years.
Your AEWM members’ forum is intended to provide valuable information, examples of good practice and peer support during these changing times. Please take a look at the forum and use this section, provided for members only, to your advantage.
All the discussions and comments that are posted within the members area over the coming weeks and months will significantly influence the NEC in our planning of future AEWM events and will inform the content of our future meetings with the DfE, so please log on and ensure you take the opportunity to share your views/challenges and enable your NEC to continue to represent the AEWM membership with confidence.
The NEC realise that today’s publications will present challenges to you all and being a member of the AEWM may have never been more important. Please look out for your membership renewal email, which will be on its way to you in the next few days. If you know of any colleagues involved in the management of school attendance that are not members, please encourage them to look at the website, get in touch and join up.
Save the date: Members only conference, incorporating the AEWM AGM, is being held on Wednesday 15th May 2024 - virtually and in-person at The Arden Hotel and Leisure Club, Solihull.
Best Wishes
Steve Wilkinson
AEWM President
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- By Steve Martin
Every state school in England will now share their daily attendance registers across the education sector.
The DFE have today issued new regulations in relation to School Attendance (link below). The Association has been working closely with the DFE, our President Steve Wilkinson said:
“We welcomed the opportunity to work closely with the DfE to share the vast expertise of our members with improving attendance in schools and other educational provisions.”
“Putting these measures on a statutory footing helps reinforce the importance of school attendance and the need to ensure families receive the support they need, when they need it, working together to ensure any barriers to attendance for children are removed.”
The full DFE press release and link to the new regulations can be used following the link below.
For further information please use the 'contact' tab on the website.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-regulations-for-schools-in-next-stage-of-attendance-drive
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- By David Harvey
The DFE has invited the AEWM to take part in a roundtable discussion (22 May 2023) to look at the guidance for EHE. Once the roundtable discussions have been conducted, and any amendments made , the document will go out for consultation.
This is a great opportunity for AEWM to be involved at an early stage and help shape EHE guidance. Other participants include Education Otherwise, Education Freedom, Centre for Personalised Education, AEHEP, National Children's Bureau, Children Commissioner's Office and up to 7 home educators
Members are asked to let Dave Harvey (AEWM representative) know what they would like to see changed or included in the guidance. Please drop Dave an email (
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