{"id":22332,"date":"2024-12-04T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=22332"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:18:05","slug":"how-you-can-help-your-child","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/attendance-and-inclusion\/ebsa\/misses-a-lot-of-school\/how-you-can-help-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can help your child (missing a lot of school or not attending)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even when a child is absent for a long period of time, it is still very important to keep in contact with school, updating them of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some strategies you may find helpful<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Help your child to maintain friendships and social connections. Arrange play dates, outings or virtual meet ups with classmates to keep them socially engaged.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support your child to maintain a consistent routine at home. Try to maintain regular sleep, meal and study schedules.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speak with school staff about creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/attendance-and-inclusion\/ebsa\/how-school-can-help-your-child\/specialist-attendance-support\/#stepped-plan\">stepped support plan<\/a>. This could begin with very small steps such as practising the school routine at home or visiting the school after hours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seek professional advice and recommendations, and try any strategies they recommend with your child.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try to keep records of your child\u2019s engagement and response to different strategies, especially those based on professional advice. There may be things that work better than others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help your child attend professional appointments by preparing them for meetings in advance and arranging appointments at times that suit your child best. Online meetings may be a better option for your child.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advocate for your child in professional meetings to ensure their voice is heard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are likely to have a good understanding of the reasons behind your child\u2019s difficulties and you can ensure this is shared with professionals supporting them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It may also be useful to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/attendance-and-inclusion\/ebsa\/regularly-misses-school\/how-you-can-help-your-child\/\">try or revisit some strategies<\/a> suggested here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when a child is absent for a long period of time, it is still very important to keep in contact with school, updating them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":22232,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-22332","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 21:17:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22865,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22332\/revisions\/22865"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}