Academy trust attendance hubs are going beyond the school gates in their push to get children back in the classroom. Samantha Booth reports
One in five pupils was “persistently” absent last year, a figure that is nearly double the pre-Covid norm.
The government last year named nine attendance hubs, all in academy trusts, to help 600 schools struggling to cut these absences. So what solutions have these trusts found?
Unity Schools Partnership has two schools in the attendance scheme – Abbots Green Primary Academy, in Suffolk, and St Edward’s Church of England secondary, in Essex.
