Education Welfare is a specialist service provided by the Local Authority to families and schools. Its key role is to ensure
high levels of pupil attendance. Approaches include individual pupil casework, wider support to schools for them to promote
good attendance and take quick action to address potential absence difficulties, and working with other agencies and groups
to address factors that contribute to absence from school. In addition Education Welfare undertakes to protect children from
exploitation and harm (including educationally) in the areas of child employment and entertainment and child protection.
Education Welfare has teams of Education Welfare Officers based within the Integrated Service Delivery Areas. There
is also an Attendance team (provisionally until end of March 2008). In addition there is a specialist Education Welfare Officer
responsible for child employment and children in entertainment and a Children Missing from Education team.
Please see the links below for further details.