Water Leys
Primary School
Pupils Missing In Education
Pupils Missing out on Education (PME)
Process
If your child is absent from school and we have not received any notification from you (parent/carer), we will make every effort to contact you.
If your child has been missing from school for 3 days and no contact has been received or made with their parent/carer, we will follow the following steps:
Contact the Education Welfare Officer to conduct a home visit or school staff will undertake a home visit.
If we are unable to contact you at your home address then we will call the Police for a ‘safe and well’ check. We will provide the child’s date of birth, the last day they attended school, why we are concerned about their non-attendance and any other concerns we may have.
If there are safeguarding concerns then our safeguarding and child protection procedures will be followed which will result in a referral being made to Leicestershire Children's Social Services.
If after 10 continuous school days we are unable to locate a pupil's whereabouts then a referral to Leicestershire's Inclusion service will be made.