{"id":21389,"date":"2023-07-25T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings-new\/?page_id=21389"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:02:20","slug":"connecting-with-families","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/inclusion\/attendance-improvement\/advice-and-guidance\/dcc-guidance-and-attendance-support-tools\/connecting-with-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting with families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Key to managing pupil attendance is the quality of the relationships that schools build with families and the wider community. A proactive, compassionate and child focused approach to improving attendance will always out perform a reactive and punitive one. School&#8217;s should look to building a trusting, compassionate and collaborative approach to working with pupils and families where the common goal of pupil success is progressed towards as a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Useful documents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/ESqJiFtr3XFLjGNHMnHUfoMBHxPhLoiojoUk4ONRKEYmxQ?e=on9IyP\" rel=\"noopener\">Child focused restorative approach<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EbKciLrOkbFCl8u_UaxPuHwBMcMwzm7xORxhBCJrSG6XLg?e=YdzFgS\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaflet for parents on the importance of regular attendance <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EeCPVtY2KMJEnufx-ZwodsUBY4z7gtcBmGfTv7fUzBv0PA?e=O7dAyw\" rel=\"noopener\">DfE guide to increasing pupil attendance with parent messages<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EQsM9X9T7thFrxKhfIG7mUIBqZxfKkyfmrNbPbYZZ88aew?e=gEsElW\" rel=\"noopener\">Ideas for structuring conversations (potential scripts) for parent\/family phone calls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key to managing pupil attendance is the quality of the relationships that schools build with families and the wider community. A proactive, compassionate and child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2554,"featured_media":0,"parent":20282,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 19:38:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29115,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21389\/revisions\/29115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}