Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School

Professor Ken Reid has spent a lifetime in this field and was awarded an OBE for his Services to Education by the Queen in 2010 for this work. He has written over 150 articles in academic journals based on his research in this and related fields and he was the Chair of the Welsh Assembly Government Review into School Behaviour and Attendance and has more recently, written a special Report for the Minister of Education and Skills in Wales on this subject. He is currently the Advisor to the Welsh Government on school behaviour and attendance and has previously published several books for Routledge. He is also Associate Editor of Educational Studies for Taylor & Francis & on the Editorial Board of other Journals

• 1. The Importance of Regular Attendance 2. The Importance of Sound Leadership: Some Policy Initiatives 3. A Whole-School strategy at the Primary level 4. A Whole-School Strategy at the Secondary Level 5. Some Effective Good Practice in Schools 6. A Checklist on Good Practice 7. Early Intervention Strategies 8.Using Attendance Panels 9.Using Effective Monitoring Schemes 10. Some New Approaches