• 2022, May 19, ‘School Absences and the Poverty-related Attainment Gap’, University of Strathclyde in collaboration with Poverty Alliance and General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS)
• 2022, June: West Lothian Council. Attendance and Engagement at School: Policy and Operational Procedures.
• 2022, June 7, NAIT Anxiety Related Absence Webinar 2022, published by Education Scotland
• 2022, November 17, ‘Let’s Talk Scottish Education’, published by Scottish Government
• 2023, January 20, ‘National School Attendance Conference’, a conference hosted by NSM Training and Consultancy

Recent Publications:

• Borbely, D., Gehrsitz, M., McIntyre, S., & Rossi, G. (2022). Does the Provision of Universal Free School Meals Improve School Attendance and Behaviour? Preprint (June, 29, 2022)
• Klein, M., Sosu, E. M., & Dare, S. (2022). School Absenteeism and Academic Achievement: Does the Reason for Absence Matter? AERA Open, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211071115
• Klein, M., Sosu, E., & Lillywhite, E. (2022). School absenteeism and educational attainment-Evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study. University of Strathclyde. https://doi.org/10.17868/80713

2021

• 2021, January: Covid-19 and school absenteeism - Klein, M., Sosu, E. M. (2021) Socioeconomic Disparities in School Absenteeism after the First Wave of COVID-19 School Closures in Scotland. 
• 2021, March: Podcast Spotlight: Socioeconomic Inequalities in School Absenteeism 
• 2021, May: University of Strathclyde Engage Event “Data Can Tell Us ‘What Works’ in Education: Insights from Quantitative Education Research”. 
• 2021, May: Discussion of attendance and offending outcomes - Henderson, G., Rogon, P., Kurlus, I., Henderson, S. And Woods, R. (2021). Educational Attendance and Offending Outcomes. Home Compulsory Supervision Orders: Effectiveness of Decision Making and Outcomes. Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration. 
• 2021, August: Systematic review of family SES and school absenteeism - Sosu, E. M., Dare, S., Goodfellow, C., & Klein, M. (2021). Socioeconomic status and school absenteeism: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Review of Education, 9(3), e3291. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3291
• 2021, September: Relationship between school attendance and missed GP appointments - McQueenie, R., Ellis, D. A., Fleming, M., Wilson, P., & Williamson, A. E. (2021). Educational associations with missed GP appointments for patients under 35 years old: administrative data linkage study. BMC medicine, 19(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02100-7
• 2021, December: Government statistics on Scotland school attendance – Scottish Government (2021). Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland 2021. 

2020

• 2020, March: University of Strathclyde, School of Education Blog: School Attendance and the Poverty-related Attainment Gap. 
• 2020, November: Socioeconomic inequalities in school absenteeism - Klein, M., Sosu, E. M., & Dare, S. (2020). Mapping inequalities in school attendance: The relationship between dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence. Children and Youth Services Review, 118, 105432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105432
• 2020, November: Report on attendance across the UK - Sibieta, L. (2020). School attendance rates across the UK since full reopening. 

2019

• 2019, June: Government advice on school attendance - Scottish Government (2019). Included, engaged and involved part 1: A Positive Approach to the Promotion and Management of Attendance in Scottish Schools. 
• 2019, June: Publication on exclusion - Cole, T., McCluskey, G., Daniels, H., Thompson, I., & Tawell, A. (2019). Factors associated with high and low levels of school exclusions: Comparing the English and wider UK experience. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 24(4), 374-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2019.1628340
• 2019, July: Exclusion across the UK - McCluskey, G., Cole, T., Daniels, H., Thompson, I., & Tawell, A. (2019). Exclusion from school in Scotland and across the UK: Contrasts and questions. British Educational Research journal, 45(6), 1140-1159. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3555
• 2019, August: Crieff High School (2019). Attendance Strategy Report.  

2018

• 2018, June: Publication providing data on school exclusions and attendance on attainment - Scottish Government (2018). Education outcomes for looked after children: 2016 to 2017. 

2017

• 2017, March: Publication which discusses exclusion as a factor of the attainment gap - McCluskey, G. (2017). Closing the attainment gap in Scottish schools: Three challenges in an unequal society. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 12(1), 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746197916683468
• 2017, June: Government advice on school exclusions - Scottish Government (2017). Included, engaged and involved part 2: preventing and managing school exclusions. 

2015

• 2015, September: OECD report discusses school attendance in Scotland - OECD. (2015). Improving Schools in Scotland: An OECD Perspective. 

Resources for schools, professionals and/or families that support school attendance

• Scottish Government: School attendance: a Guide for Parents
• East Lothian Council: A Positive Approach to Promoting School Attendance
• East Lothian Council: Attendance Guidance
• Govan Law Centre: A guide for Parents about School Attendance
• West Lothian Council: Attendance and Engagement at school: Policy and Operational Procedures
• The School Run: The parents’ Guide to School Attendance

Media attention about school attendance

• Over 100,000 schoolchildren missing day of lessons every two weeks (STV, November 2022)
• SNP urged to act after numbers of pupils missing school sky-rockets in Scotland (Scottish Daily Express, November 2022)
• Growing number of children with a learning disability deregistering from school (Learning Disability Today, October 2022)
• Authorised absences ‘equally detrimental’ to pupils (TES, May 2022)
• Truancy on the rise in the SNP's Scotland as one in 10 pupils skips school every day (Scottish Daily Express, May 2022)
• Scale of Covid pupil absences in Scotland revealed (TES, January 2022)
• Pupils lost a third of their expected learning during COVID, with Wales and Scotland even further behind (LSE Blog, July 2021)