Skip to content
Start a free trialFree trialMy learning
Health and Wellbeing

Simple Strategies to Support Students with Emotional Based School Avoidance

Work out what's keeping a child away from school, then plan a return in steps they can actually manage.

  • 58 minutes
  • 1 CPD hour
  • Certificate
Start free trialBuy this course

Free for 14 days, then £8 a month or £80 a year. Cancel before day 14 and you won't pay anything.

On its own: £51 including VAT · 12 months' access

About this course

The first signs of emotionally based school avoidance are easy to miss. Stomach aches on a Monday, one maths lesson skipped, asking to stay in at playtime. By the time attendance drops, the anxiety has usually been building for a while.

You'll learn to spot EBSA early and find out what's behind it. That means weighing what's pulling a child towards home against what's pushing them away from school, across the child, the family and the school itself. Then you can build a plan with the pupil and their parents, rather than one that's done to them.

The advice on returning comes from a former primary headteacher: an online chat with a key adult, then a visit at home, then meeting in the school grounds before going inside. Don't rush the next step. One pupil stopped coming when an hour a day was stretched to a whole morning too soon.

Modules

14 modules
  1. 1Introduction2 min
  2. 2What is EBSA?5 min
  3. 3EBSA Good Practice Guidance4 min
  4. 4Pull and Push Factors4 min
  5. 5Child Based Factors3 min
  6. 6Family Based Factors2 min
  7. 7School Based Factors2 min
  8. 8Universal Support5 min
  9. 9Targeted Support2 min
  10. 10Early Indicators2 min
  11. 11Returning to School4 min
  12. 12Plan, Do, Review7 min
  13. 13Useful Links1 min
  14. 14Q&A15 min

Across all our courses

91%

of people who rated one of our courses would recommend it to a friend or colleague. From more than 95,000 ratings.

Other courses on this topic

See all courses

Good to know

  • A certificate with your CPD hours that anyone can check online.
  • Buy the course and you have 12 months to finish it.
  • Stop when you like and pick up where you left off.
  • Your school is a member? Log in and it’s already there. You won’t pay twice.

Start this course today

Try it free for 14 days. The trial opens every course in the library, including this one.

On its own: £51 including VAT · 12 months' access

Start free trialBuy this course