Sent to parents and carers of students in Years 7 to 10 on 7/03/25

 

Attendance Mentoring Programme

Information About Data Sharing

 

Please read this email carefully as it contains information about how your child’s data will be used. This communication has been sent to all parents/carers of students who are currently in Years 7 to 10.

Note: Receipt of this email does not mean that your child has been selected for mentoring support at this stage. If your child is selected, you will be given further information.

 

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.

The programme is being delivered by Etio. 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 does the evaluation involve?

To understand if mentoring helps young people, we will collect some information about the child/children in your care. We are looking at school-level attendance. That means we will receive your child’s data even if they 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.

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)

If the child in your care is currently in Year 8, we will ask them to do a short survey called the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire once a year. This will help us learn about their feelings and behaviour and see if the programme is working. Young people do not have to do the questionnaire if they do not want to.

 

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.
  • We have a Data Privacy Notice which gives you more detail and you can download it here:

Mentoring Data Privacy Notice Pupil Version

 

Archive

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

 

What do you have to do?

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

If you do not want your child’s data to be shared with the evaluation team, please complete the confidential MS Form below by the deadline of 14 March 2025. Withdrawing your child’s data from the attendance mentoring evaluation means that the child in your care will not be offered mentoring to support them at school. If you have more than one child in Years 7 to 10 then please submit the form separately for each child

https://forms.office.com/e/6PJjtYSLnW

 

Regards

Kind regards

Mr M Higgon

Principal

 

Academy vision: Westbourne is an inclusive academy. We support all students, regardless of starting point, to achieve their potential and develop the skills necessary for employment and life.

Academy values: Be Safe, Be Thoughtful, Be Accountable and Be Respectful.

General queries to: wes-office@attrust.org.uk or 01473 742315

Attendance or Absence queries to: wes-attendance@attrust.org.uk 

Exam queries to: anna.fulcher@attrust.org.uk 

MCAS, online payments and data information queries to: wes-data@attrust.org.uk

SEND queries to: opal.degville@attrust.org.uk