Education Social Workers
What we do:
The primary role of the Service is to provide advice, information and support to schools, children and families in raising levels of attendance, which includes:
- Undertaking home visits in cases of absence from school;
- Undertaking joint “Truancy Sweeps” with the Police in accordance with Section 16 of the Crime & Disorder Act 1998;
- Attendance at, and written reports for, case conferences;
- A legal duty to assist in child protection enquiries, together with a local requirement to undertake a home visit on the first day of any absence of a child whose name is on the Child Protection Register;
- Advice on Bolton's Child Concern Model, including chairing Child in Need Meetings, as appropriate
- Attempting to trace lost children;
- Working with children who do not have a school place;
- Involvement with Traveller children;
- Providing services to Nurseries, Pupil Referral Units, the Young Mums’ Unit, and all special schools;
- Monitoring the attendance of all Looked After Children, attending Statutory Reviews (if necessary) and liaising closely with Key Workers if attendance is a problem;
- Monitoring children in receipt of Home Tuition and providing advice to the Home Tuition Panel;
- Processing School Attendance Orders;
- Take court action against parents who fail to make sure their children receive a proper education.
- Working with other agencies e.g. Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, schools outside Bolton, children living in temporary accommodation, e.g. women’s refuges
- A legal duty to licence and monitor all children under 16 who work in permitted employment, take part in entertainment performances or who act as models
- A legal duty to licence a person, who may be a man or a woman, to chaperone a child during a performance
Education Social Workers can be contacted via a child's school or by contacting the Education Social Work Service by phone to make an appointment.
Casual callers will not be seen without an appointment.