Decision details

To approve the Dorset Attendance Strategy.

Decision

That the implementation of the new Dorset Attendance Strategy and associated plan to make attendance in educational settings a key feature of all frontline council services and partners’ work, be approved and supported.

Reason for the decision

New attendance statutory guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) took effect in September 2022. An expectation from the DfE’s guidance was to make attendance a key feature of all frontline council services. The report sought to respond to the guidance with a new Attendance Strategy for Dorset which had been developed with our schools and partners.