Decision details

School Attendance Review - Children’s & Education Select Committee Report

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

For Cabinet to discuss the recommendations from the scrutiny review into school attendance

Decision:

Cabinet were asked to consider the recommendations of the School Attendance Review Group which was formed to investigate the extent of school non-attendance within Buckinghamshire since the pandemic and to ascertain how schools and the local authority were working together to address the issue, which was currently a national concern.

 

RESOLVED – 

(1)   That the Rapid Review Group, as well as the supporting Officers, be thanked for their work and subsequent recommendations.

(2)   That Cabinet’s responses to the School Attendance Review 2024 and recommendations, as detailed at the meeting, be agreed.

 

Note: a complete breakdown of the scrutiny recommendations and Cabinet’s responses can be found here

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Details of any conflict of interest declared: None

Contact: Katie Dover, Senior Scrutiny Officer Email: Catherine.Dover@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.

Report author: Katie Dover

Publication date: 26/11/2024

Date of decision: 26/11/2024

Decided at meeting: 26/11/2024 - Cabinet

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