Improving school attendance

Educators, policy makers and researchers have worried for a long time about pupils who lose interest in school. Yet most recent professional titles in this area focus on classroom conduct and exclusion, leaving non-attendance itself under-explored in rigorous, research-based work. This is despite substantial government spending on local education authority and school initiatives designed to raise attendance.

This book presents previously unpublished research to evaluate how attendance practice works at three levels: across local education authorities, within whole schools, and with individual pupils. Drawing on several disciplines, it is presented as the first book on non-attendance in several years.