The Team Around the School and Settings (TASS)
Local priorities
School non attendance
Work with schools and multi-agency partners to explore factors contributing to school non-attendance across Preston, including anxiety around school and wider emotional health and wellbeing support for children, young people and families.
Updated for 25/26- multi-agency partners to be brought into the work to explore what school non-attendance looks like across Preston and how they can support.
What are we going to do to address this?
- Identify some of the reasons why children are struggling to attend school
- Link schools to partners in the district who can support with school attendance and raise awareness of the various educational status of children and young people
- Align the work with the Preston Youth Forum and Preston Youth Strategy, the objectives of 'Be Healthy' and 'Be Ready for the Future'
How are we checking on progress?
- A multi- agency partnership group will meet to look at the key themes of non-attendance and messages from the relevant LCC teams working with schools
- Consult the most up to date data around EHE, CME, Perm Ex and attendance
- Updates regarding partner work around non-attendance will be shared at the partnership meeting, these projects include a data correlation exercise by the police looking at non- attendance and police activity in one identified school community, a CSP funded detached youth work project in collaboration with The Foxton Centre engaging with young people not attending and working with them to establish the most suitable education or participation activities and the Parents Transitions sessions- data and feedback will be gathered and shared.
- Accountability for the group actions is through the TASS Locality Group, Preston Youth Forum and Headteacher Clusters
How will we know when this has been successful and how will the work be sustained?
Partners will be aware of the main themes leading to school non-attendance across Preston. Schools will be updated about the offers available to them and partnership work to support the issues.
Schools will feel supported in the mental health offer across Preston. They will know what's available to them across the district and who to refer to, when. The mental health pathways document will be in place for all schools.
