Supporting Attendance, Ensuring Compliance

Expert Guidance for New Legislation in Attendance

Your Partner in Supporting Attendance

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Support for Attendance

Welcome to the Attendance and Family Support Services by Mercian Educational Trust, your trusted partner in navigating the complexities of pupil's attendance. As new legislation takes effect, ensuring your school is prepared is more crucial than ever. We offer bespoke support, offer ideas and maintain full compliance. Register or contact us today for your free consultation.

Boosting School Attendance

What we offer

 

Finding Routes to Improve Attendance

Collaborate with our experts to identify and implement effective strategies that boost pupil attendance and engagement and reduce persistent absenteeism.

Develop a culture of high expectations

Helping you create and communicate a culture of high attendance expectations with all staff understanding attendance responses.

Remove barriers to attendance

Working with you to remove barriers to attendance, and build bridges with families.
 

 

Administration

Support

Supporting your team with managing school attendance registers and coding, sharing data, monitoring daily attendance, leave during term time requests and much more. 

Support Attendance Champions

A responsive point of contact to ensure compliance and maximise resources. Collaborative audits with action plans to improve attendance.

Monitor and understand

Working together with your team to monitor, understand and prevent attendance issues through early interventions and offering support first.

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Experts delivering a responsive service

Our team

Experts from various backgrounds, including education and children's services, building bridges between schools and parents and removing barriers to improve school attendance.  

Attendance and Family Support Lead

Donna Parker

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Donna Parker is an Attendance and Family Support Lead specialising in multi-agency collaboration to provide holistic support for the most vulnerable children and young people.

With 20 years experience working as an Educational Welfare Officer before progressing onto senior management roles, supporting vulnerable children and young people, Donna has honed her expertise in improving school attendance. She is passionate about addressing and overcoming barriers that prevent children from engaging in education. Donna is dedicated to enhancing the life of each child while staying committed to safeguarding and responsible information sharing.

Donna supports schools through strategic interventions and ensuring families are supported, receiving guidance and help to overcome challenges to school attendance.

Educational Welfare Officer

Claire Smout

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Claire is a compassionate Educational Welfare Officer with over three decades of experience, dedicated to the well-being and success of every pupil. With a background in teaching and having progressed to Deputy Head at Great Malvern Primary School, Claire has honed her ability to help pupils and their families overcome educational barriers.

She works closely with families to address attendance issues, offering personalised support while bridging the gap between school and home to create a nurturing, inclusive environment. Known for her warmth, ability to connect with pupils and colleagues, and her deep knowledge of the education system, Claire excels at building relationships, maximising resources, and fostering a strong sense of community.

Driven by her commitment to safeguarding, well-being, and the holistic development of every pupil, Claire's greatest reward is seeing pupils thrive.

“This service saves me a lot of time and proactively works to target weak attendance. I appreciate the way that they make sure that I am involved when necessary.”

 

"Proactive. Good attendance support. Good engagement with hard-to-reach families."

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Attending School: A Parent's Guide

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Written by experts, our 'Attending School: A Parent's Guide' helps parents understand the importance of attendance and the impact of term time absences.

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For more information please email dparker@metacademies.org.uk