define fine
Market Harborough
Define Fine has been created by a small but committed team of parents and
professionals who have lived experience of school attendance difficulties. As
DEFINE FINE: Parent Peer Support for School Attendance Difficulties we support
our members who are struggling with school attendance difficulties and parent
carers from our wider SEND and mental health networks. We provide peer support
using our tried and tested resources and to help parents advocate for the
support their children and young people need to be able to learn and achieve. We
hope to build up our growing network of peer supporters, who we can train to use
our guides for their own family and ultimately to then help other families
experiencing attendance difficulties. Our resources and training are also
available for professionals in Education, Health and Social Care. Empowering
parents to be able to effectively work with professionals, should encourage not
only earlier intervention, with much better outcomes, but also reduce the risk
and impact of unhelpful, and unnecessary attendance prosecutions and social
services interventions. It is vital that children, young people and their
families receive appropriate support, and especially in cases where
professionals insist children are “fine in school, “ all are clear as to how
fine is actually defined. For us “fine in school” would mean that children are
safe, healthy, happy and their needs are acknowledged and supported to be able
to access suitable education and learn.
