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Training and development programme 2024 - 2025

Working Together to Improve School Attendance 

Monday 11 Novemberr             18:00 to 19:30                 online

The Department for Education (DfE) guidance entitled Working Together to Improve School Attendance (WTTISA) has been in place since September 2022. 
 It was produced with the aim of helping schools, trusts, governing bodies and local authorities maintain high levels of school attendance. 
 The guidance makes clear the values the department places on school attendance. It also states that: 

  • securing good attendance cannot be seen in isolation; 
  •  effective practices for improvement must be closely linked with curriculum, behaviour, bullying, special education needs support, pastoral and mental health and wellbeing, and effective use of resources such as the pupil premium; 
  • attendance cannot be improved through a single member of staff or organisation and must be a concerted effort across all school staff, the trust or governing body, the local authority and other local partners. 

This means it is a set of expectations for schools, rather than legal duties. It will become statutory guidance from 19 August 2024. 

 To support Governors Southwark will be holding a WTTISA Briefing to provide you with an oversight of the new expectations and to answer any questions you may have.