Sent to Parents & Carers of Year 7 Students on 11/11/25

 

Attendance Mentoring Programme

Please read this email carefully as it contains information about how your young person’s data will be used.

In future, your child may be offered mentoring through the Attendance Mentors programme. The programme is being delivered by Etio within school. The programme is being evaluated by the Centre for Evidence and Implementation. The programme is funded by the Department for Education and the Youth Endowment Fund.

 

What is the Attendance Mentoring Programme?

Some children find it difficult to go to school. The attendance mentoring programme will support children with low attendance to work on their challenges so that they can go to school more often.

 

What does the evaluation involve?

To understand if mentoring helps young people, we will collect some information about the child in your care. We will compare attendance in schools that have a mentor to schools that do not have a mentor.

 

What information will we collect?

The information is already recorded by the school – your child does not need to do anything. The school will securely share this information with the evaluation team. It includes:

  • Demographic information (age, gender, ethnicity etc)
  • School attendance levels
  • Exclusions data (if they have been excluded from school and why)
  • Exam results (GCSEs, if they take them during the programme)

 

What happens to the information?

  • All information about young people will be kept safe and private. Only the evaluation team can see it.
  • Reports will not include any names or identifying information.
  • We will only share information if we are worried about a young person’s safety or the safety of others, or if we are required to do so by law.
  • Please see the Data Privacy Notice (DPN) for more detail

 

Archive

The funder of this project will store some data for at least five years. This data will not be linked to your young person’s name.

 

What do you have to do?

If you are happy for your young person’s data to be used in the evaluation, you do not need to take any action.

If you do not want your young person’s data to be shared with the evaluation team, please inform wes-attendance@attrust.org.uk and state that you do not provide consent for mentoring. Withdrawing your child’s data from the attendance mentors evaluation means that the child in your care will not be eligible for mentoring to support them at school.

Thank you

The team at the Centre for Evidence and Implementation