Improving School Attendance project - Dundee City Council: Identifying need and aims
This section outlines the need for the project and how the basis of partnership working was established. It also includes the overall ambition of the partnership and an overview of those involved.
Support staff met with members of the school leadership team to look at data around those children and young people that had been identified as having barriers to attendance and those who were late by 30 minutes or greater. The amount of minutes lost for these children and young people were calculated and it was noticed that those who were late after a period of time wouldn’t come in at all. This established the basis of the project’s need.
The ambition of the project is to reduce the minutes missed in school and increase children and young people’s attendance at school.
Our key partners are school, family development workers and our families.
