Episode description

Discover the complex issues around school attendance that can adversely affect students, teachers and parents.

The media have referred to it as school ‘refusal’ but student attendance is an old problem in the new post COVID lockdown era.

Hear out host, Dr Sophie Specjal speak with clinical psychologist, Associate Professor Glenn Melvin who shares research and expertise with student anxieties. Discover practical insights from Katie Archibald and Rebecca Plunkett discuss how they are working with at risk students in improving their school attendance at the Travancore school. Explore the big picture of school attendance measurement and its national issues from Associate Professor Lisa McKay Brown who shares research, expertise and support for the complexity of school attendance.