Thank you for taking some time to explore this resource which we hope you will find useful. It is a repository for the learning we gather from the ‘Making Attendance Everyone’s Business’ (MAEB) Project which started in January 2023 as a joint endeavour between Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (RCBC), Anglo American, and Skyblue Research Ltd. We hope you can help us improve it over time too by contributing good practice and resources when you feel there is something you want to communicate across the growing network of people and organisations engaging with this ambition.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council’s (RCBC) long-term goal is to improve attendance in Redcar & Cleveland (R&C) schools and colleges, particularly for those children living in our most disadvantaged wards, with the wider longer-term benefits for their health, wellbeing and economic prospects. In the short-term, we are seeking to learn together how to prevent the risks and reverse the levels, of persistent and severe absence by children and young people in Redcar and Cleveland by the end of 2026 compared to the prevailing situation in 2023. Longer term (by 2040), we have a vision for a system and Borough where it is exceptional for any child or young person to miss more than 10% of their education and where Redcar & Cleveland is a place renowned for providing modern, flexible approaches that motivate, equip and support children and their families to want to be at school college or other inspiring learning environment.
If you have an interest in or responsibility for improving outcomes for young people, families, communities and services across the R&C Borough, there is a high likelihood that you have something valuable to contribute towards this work. We would love to understand those opportunities better and work with you to design some long-term solutions for reducing persistent absence (children who miss at least 10% of school through absence) and severe absence (children who miss at least 50% of school through absence) and risks associated with these dynamics. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We will also be pushing out communications inviting you to engage in different ways that might suit your interests and expertise throughout 2024 and 2025. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch and also click on the ‘How you can get involved’ tab on this website as details will be added as opportunities emerge.
If you wish to discuss the Making Attendance Everyone’s Business Project please don’t hesitate to contact:
Amanda Olvanhill, Head of Post-16 Progression and Careers, Education Service, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council. T: 07870 158812 or Email: amanda.olvanhill@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
Alan Graver, (MD) Skyblue Research Ltd T: 0794 000 4560 Email: alan@skyblue.org.uk
