Newbold Hope
Pre-Recorded Webinar - How to Support your Child when they Struggle to Attend School.
What do you do when your child or young person becomes distressed at the thought of going to school? What happens when they simply cannot attend? It may be that they can’t face school for a day or so here or there, or they may stop going for weeks or months. What if it doesn’t look like you’ll ever get them back through the school gates?
This is an issue that is affecting thousands of families all over the country. It's an incredibly emotional issue that’s shrouded in shame, but seldom discussed and often ignored and swept right under the carpet. When it does get talked about, more often than not the parents are blamed and the children may be seen as trouble-making delinquents.
There’s so much more behind the reasons why children and young people may develop an inability to go to school, but most people can’t see the real reasons why. If it happens to your child, chances are you’ll feel lost, out-of-your-depth and as if you are somehow failing as a parent. Yet it’s very seldom a parent’s fault and it’s highly unlikely to be the child’s fault either.
This live online webinar is a joint project between Newbold Hope and Not Fine In School, two parent-led organisations which both support parents when things are extremely difficult due to difficult or dangerous behaviour or with school attendance. Yvonne Newbold MBE will lead the session which takes a realistic view of what’s really going on, why it’s so poorly understood, and what you can do to support your child in the best way possible. It’s packed with workable strategies and ideas that can really help to make things better.
Here are just some of the topics we’ll be looking at -
- Who are the stakeholders – the important players – when a child can’t attend school?
- How do each group of stakeholders view non-attendance
- What does this mean for children and their families?
- What are parents often told to do?
- The law regarding school non-attendance
- What works and what doesn’t
- What’s really going on?
- What you can do to help
- How to get other stakeholders onside
- Where to seek help
- How to counter parent-blame
- How to best support your child
- Top tips to get through this
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