Partnership and multi-agency working: Partnership principles for improving attendance - visualiser
PDF file: Partnership principles for improving attendance (2.5 MB) - A visual summary of the principles all practitioners should hold when working in partnership to improve attendance.
A text based summary of this visualiser is detailed below.
Awareness of the factors that can lead to attendance issues
- Equalities, poverty, family dynamics, community, relationships, mental health, neurodiversity, trauma
Skills and qualities for working with children, young people and their families
- Listen
- Trust
- Be patient
- Empathy
- Don’t judge
- Encourage
Communication
- Safe welcoming, informal and neutral spaces
- Show interest while being inquisitive and transparent
- Explore the use of different communication methods
Early intervention
- Involve the whole family
- Consider the community as a place for interventions
- Co-design approaches
- Interventions must be consistent, continuous and sustainable
Change
- Deadlines
- Unrealistic expectations
- Negativity
- Punitive approaches
- Applying a hierarchy and being inflexible in approaches utilised
Strong partnerships
- Strategy, outcomes, objectives, knowledge, data and evaluations are a shared responsibility
- Partners must be invited and be a respected part of school communities
- Partnerships are a long term commitment and time is needed to nurture these.
- All partners are equal in the process
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