Issue - meetings

The Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills and Early Help to present the recommendation from the People and Health Overview Committee of 19 December 2022.

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.

The Portfolio Holder for Children, Education, Skills, and Early Help presented a recommendation from People and Health Overview Committee on 19 December 2022.

In presenting the recommendation, the Portfolio Holder spoke in support of the Dorset Attendance Strategy and it associated plan to make attendance in educational settings a key feature of all frontline council services and partners’ work. Cllr R Bryan seconded the recommendation.

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.