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1. Introduction, background and context
2. Managing attendance and absence School policies and procedures Wherever learning takes place Providing for pupils during long-term illness Education outwith school High expectations Registration and recording lateness Immediate action when absence is noted Children missing from education Follow up on absence Attendance beyond school leaving age Stages of support Medical and dental appointments
3. Managing authorised absence Authorised absence Children with complex lives Exclusion from school Different lives, different needs Diverse school communities Family holidays
4. Managing unauthorised absence Unauthorised absence Parents' priorities Casual truancy Chronic truancy - unhappy at school? Chronic truancy - unhappy for other reasons? Caught up with other influences Substance misuse Long-term exceptional domestic circumstances Motivation
5. Promoting attendance - school, community and authority initiatives Authority and school objectives Raising the profile Community partnership Police partnership initiatives
6. Pastoral care
7. Additional support Additional Support for Learning Supporting the care and welfare of children and child protection Personal support in schools
8. Multi-agency assessment/planning/review
9. Measures for compulsory compliance Attendance orders Parenting orders Referral to children's hearings Anti-social behaviour orders; intensive support and monitoring services
10. Attendance and absence data recording and management Recording and coding Using data effectively Recording and coding guidance
11. Resources and further information
Responses by 27 February 2007 to laura.meikle@scotland.gsi.gov.uk tracy.o'hanlon@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
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