Range of Attendance Services provided by qualified Education Welfare Officers

• Monday-Friday telephone advice and support
• Regular monitoring and review of attendance data
  
• Persistent absence identification
  
• Accept referrals where criteria has been met
• Casework for referred families
  
• Home visits and school meetings
• Case review meetings with school's attendance leader  
  
• Needs assessment and multi-agency liaison
  
• Preparation of case file for Local Authority consideration 
• Facilitating Pre Court Interviews
• Preparation of witness statement for court
  
• Attendance in court
  
• Fast track cases to prosecution
• Termly student surgeries (on request)
• Guidance on the keeping of attendance registers and coding
• Attendance Audits  
  
• Children's Hospital School referrals 
  
• Children missing education checks for safeguarding purposes