Contribute to improving attendance
Overview
Who is this unit for?
This unit is for those who contribute to monitoring and improving pupil attendance.
What is this unit about?
This unit is about monitoring attendance to identify patterns of absence and lateness and working with families to find ways of helping the pupil to attend school more regularly.
This unit contains two elements:
1. Contribute to monitoring attendance
Contributetoprocessesandproceduresforimproving attendance
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Performance criteria
You must be able to: Contribute to monitoring attendance
P1 analyse records of attendance against organisational objectives and recommended targets
P2 collate and present attendance data for use by others
P3 identify patterns of absence for individual children and young people P4 provide feedback to staff on attendance information and patterns
P5 keep accurate records of all action taken
Contribute to processes and procedures for improving attendance
P6 contact families and carers and conduct checks on reason for absence or lateness of children or young people
P7 work with families and carers to identify reasons for absence and possible ways of helping children and young people to attend more regularly
P8 notify families and carers formally of absence and advise them on the possible implications
P9 provide information to those working with individual children and young people in order to improve their attendance
P10 contribute to work with other staff and agencies to improve attendance of individual children and young people and at risk groups
P11 contribute to initiatives to raise awareness and improve attendance
P12 keep accurate records of all action taken
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand: K1 legal responsibilities and limits of authority in relation to non-attendance K2 roles and responsibilities of other agencies in matters of attendance
K3 relevant circulars and guidance on attendance
K4 recommended registration formats and ways of classifying absences K5 components of attendance policies and best practice in relation to key
issues in them
K6 alternative strategies and activities to promote attendance and how to support others to make use of them
K7 systems for electronic registration and how to access them
K8 how to gather, classify and collate attendance data for use by others
K9 ways of monitoring attendance against external targets and benchmarks K10 the attitudes of children, young people, families and carers to attendance
in formal learning and development contexts
K11 ways of developing positive attitudes to learning and attendance
K12 family, community and social factors likely to impact on levels of absence K13 organisational recording systems and processes
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Links To Other NOS
Links to other NOS Origin of this unit
This unit is taken from the National Occupational Standards for Learning, Development and Support Services for Children, Young People and those who care for them, where it appears as unit 6.