Tender: Monitoring School Attendance for Out‑of‑City Children in Care and Children with EHCPs – Wolverhampton City Council

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Wolverhampton City Council is seeking a supplier for monitoring the school attendance of children and young people in care placed in out-of-city independent placements and children and young people with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) attending out-of-city education settings, a statutory duty governed by the Education Act 1996 and Department for Education guidance. The Council requires a provider to collect and monitor attendance data for these cohorts to improve attendance, identify and address poor attendance early, and enable timely intervention in cases of unauthorised absence. The successful supplier must implement a robust, efficient attendance monitoring service that ensures accurate, timely collection of attendance data across all education provisions and support multiple methods of data acquisition, including automated extraction from education management systems where integration is feasible and secure, and alternative communication such as direct phone calls where MIS integration is not possible.