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We welcome colleagues in Scotland to INSA’s website. The menus below were updated in February 2023.

People, groups, and organisations

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  • Dr Markus Klein and Dr Edward Sosu (University of Strathclyde) are leading two research projects on school absenteeism funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Nuffield Foundation. You can contact them directly (klein@strath.ac.ukedward.sosu@strath.ac.uk) find more information on their work here: https://schoolattendance.org/
  • Excluded Lives is a multi-disciplinary project across the four jurisdictions of the UK. The overarching aim of this project is to provide a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary view of the different policies, practices and costs of formal, informal and illegal school exclusions across the UK. Scotland lead is Prof Gillean McCluskey at the University of Edinburgh 
  • The Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative has created an Interactive Attendance Guide to support settings with their improving attendance work:
  • The East Lothian Council aims to provide the best education service in Scotland and has stated its ambition for improving school attendance. The East Lothian Council also devises policies on attendance and often provides the opportunity for feedback on its website.
  • Enquire is a Scottish advice service which provides additional support for learning. The service provides advice on multiple school-related factors including attendance and exclusion.
  • Children in Scotland is a national network of people working with/for children and children themselves, to provide support and advice across all areas affecting children. One of the areas noted is school absenteeism in Scotland.
  • CELCIS aim to improve children’s lives by supporting people and organisations to inform long-lasting changes in the relevant services. The organisation attempts to influence policy through innovative and data-driven evidence. The organisation has a blog which highlights the different challenges for children, for example, the importance of attendance.
  • Together Scotland is a collective of children’s charities which aim to enhance the implementation and understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). One of the rights included is the child’s Right to Education and topics related include school attendance.
  • The Australian Network for School Attendance (ANSA) is hosting its inaugural conference to be held on September 4th and 5th 2025. For further details or to register, click here. Please contact seed-mhc@deakin.edu.au with any questions.
  • In January 2025, the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) released multiple reports on school attendance. See Barriers to School Attendance and Reasons for Student Absence and Interventions to Promote School Attendance and Address Student Absence.
  • The Australian Government recently handed down its response to the Senate Inquiry into School Refusal and related matters. Their response was disappointing for those advocating for change with little action forthcoming.
  • Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) for school attendance problems (SAPs) in Australia. This research project is a partnership between A/Prof Lisa McKay-Brown (University of Melbourne), A/Prof Glenn Melvin (Deakin University) and A/Prof Patricia Graczyk (University of Illinois Chicago). We examined the use of MTSS for SAPs in schools particularly focusing on prevention and early intervention.

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