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Cumbria Educational Psychology Service are currently exploring the issue of barriers to school attendance and 'emotionally-based school avoidance' for children and young people in Cumbria.

Emotionally-based school avoidance (EBSA) is a broad umbrella term used to describe a group of children and young people who have severe difficulty in attending school due to emotional factors, often resulting in prolonged absences from school. 

We would like to know more about schools' perceptions and experiences of this issue so that we can better support schools to help pupils who experience these difficulties. Covid-19 has exacerbated this issue for many children/young people and we are aware that schools face ongoing, unprecedented challenges in responding to this problem.

The information we gather from this survey will be used to inform development of resources to help schools in Cumbria to support pupils who face barriers to their school attendance. All survey data used in this way will be kept confidential and anonymous.

Your participation in this survey is greatly appreciated!

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* 1. Please indicate which category best describes your educational setting:

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* 2. In which district is your setting located?

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* 3. What is your role within your setting?

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* 4. How would you currently rate your knowledge/understanding of emotionally based school avoidance?

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* 5. How would you currently rate your confidence in responding to this issue within your setting?

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* 6. How would you rate your current level of concern about issues of non-attendance in your setting? (Please consider reasons other than Covid-related absences due to needing to isolate, etc. as this will be explored later)

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* 7. To what extent do you agree or disagree that the following factors are significant barriers to school attendance for pupils in your setting? (Please consider reasons other than Covid-related absences due to needing to isolate, etc. as this will be explored later)

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  Strongly Agree Agree Neither Agree nor Disagree Disagree Strongly Disagree
Community factors (e.g. criminal exploitation; gang-related activity)
Family factors (e.g. parental physical or mental ill health)
Child factors (e.g. anxiety-based difficulties; Special Educational Needs; difficulties with social interaction/peer relationships)
School factors (e.g. exam pressures; curriculum pressures; challenges of staffing with responsibility for non-attendance)

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* 8. Please give details of other possible barriers for pupils with EBSA to school attendance in your setting:

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* 9. How do you think the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted pupils who find it difficult to attend school?

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* 10. Do you currently have resources/strategies available to you as a setting in responding to school non-attendance/emotionally-based school avoidance?

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* 11. Please specify the resources/strategies available to you as a setting in responding to school non-attendance/emotionally-based school avoidance?

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* 12. Please outline the resources/strategies that you have found most helpful

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* 13. Which school based professionals can support with school non-attendance/emotionally-based school avoidance?

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* 14. Which external agency professionals can support with school non-attendance/emotionally-based school avoidance?

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* 15. What have these agencies done to support you in dealing with school non-attendance/ emotionally-based school avoidance in your setting?

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* 16. How confident are you in offering support to the family of children experiencing EBSA?

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* 17. What would you find helpful from a toolkit/strategy for educational settings in Cumbria? 

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* 18. Please share any other ideas for what you would find helpful from a toolkit/strategy

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* 19. Please note any other comments or information which you would like to share

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* 20. Would your setting be interested in helping us develop further work in this area?

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* 21. If yes, please share the following information (Please note that by sharing this information, you are consenting to the Educational Psychology Service using this data to possibly contact you as part of a pilot):

Thank you for your participation in this survey! We hope that this will help to make a difference for children and young people in Cumbria who face barriers to their school attendance!
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