This book provides the busy teacher with all the information they need to make social inclusion a reality within schools. By demonstrating how teachers and schools must work together to promote the wider welfare of all children, the book focuses particularly on the welfare of children on the margins of society who need the most protection. It shows how teachers can aim to reduce inequalities and maximise the learning opportunities available for these vulnerable children, whatever their background or social class. The author addresses key issues such as: attendance and achievement exclusion and behaviour safeguarding and child protection children at risk of missing education. By emphasizing the Every Child Matters agenda and the importance of joined-up partnership approaches with other professionals and agencies, this book is essential reading for all practitioners working to support pupils at risk of exclusion.
Is the Bible only for believers, or do people who don't think there is a God also have something to learn from it? We no longer have to keep to the same path as the ancient writers did, but can we use their insights as 'stepping stones'; pointers to help us on our way? In this readable and innovative personal journey, the author considers whether the various kinds of literature and human experiences that the Bible contains can still help us find the best way to live, even in our more secular times. The map may no longer show us exactly where to go. But can we use it in a different way to help us create a new kind of 'humanist spirituality'? Rather than drawing attention to our religious differences, perhaps both believers and non-believers will each find some new truths that can emphasise our common humanity instead.
Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every day; a waste of money, resources and, most of all, of opportunity. A school’s practice is now subject to scrutiny as never before, with targets and standard procedures required. A Guide to School Attendance provides a detailed practical guide for school leaders and managers, teachers, Education Welfare Officers and other attendance workers in schools and local authorities. New Registration Regulations have been force since September 2006. All state-maintained schools have a legal duty to combat unauthorised absence, to maintain a twice-daily attendance record for every pupil and have attendance policies and procedures ready for OFSTED inspections. These should define everyday practice in all schools but are not always widely known about by those on the front-line. Ben Whitney draws together twenty years of education welfare experience to provide a wealth of ideas to benefit any school. The book provides: summaries of the legal requirements extended case studies Question and Answer sections group work activities model policies and procedures
There is no shortage of voices calling for more strident action to combat 'truancy' in our schools. Levels of attendance are probably as good as they have ever been, but a small percentage of children, and their parents, continue to opt out, as they have always done. In this radical and innovative book, Ben Whitney suggests that we urgently need some new ideas, not more of what has already failed. Based on over 20 years' personal experience of dealing with the issues at the frontline, this is a thought-provoking series of reflections that challenge many of our current assumptions. From questioning conventional wisdom about what 'truancy' is, through to identifying the unreliability of the data and the ineffectiveness of punitive responses, he issues a challenge to politicians, schools and local authorities to think again. The truancy myth is no longer sustainable if we actually want to make a difference.
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