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The School Attendance Service provides support to pupils who may be having attendance difficulties and offers advice to parents and schools having to deal with pupils not attending school via:

• Home visiting
• Seeing young people in school
• Monitoring report card systems
• In-depth group work with small groups of young people

The service also covers:

• School attendance issues (rules and responsibilities)
• Children missing from education (CME)
• Truancy
• Children in employment

Knowsley Education Authority believes that young people’s school attendance must be at least 90% if they are to benefit from the education experience available to them. Our prime function is to improve and maintain attendance where this has fallen below 85%. This involves a close partnership with schools, pupils, parents and communities to ensure educational entitlement and regualr attendance at school.

The SAS works with schools to improve overall attendance rates and links with a network of multidisciplinary agencies to improve the outcomes for young people in Knowsley.

If your child is ill or unable to attend school for some reason, you should contact the school to inform them. The school will then authorise this absence.

If your child has been away from school for three days without any parental contact, the school will contact you in order to check on the attendance. Such contact could draw your attention to the fact that your child has been missing school without a reason. An unauthorised absence carries with it the risk of prosecution.