TY - BOOK AU - Reid,Ken TI - Truancy and schools SN - 0415205093 AV - LB3081. R45 1999 U1 - 371.2950941 PY - 1999/// CY - London, New York, N.Y. PB - Routledge KW - School attendance KW - Great Britain KW - Education and state N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-335) and index; List of boxes --; List of tables --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; 1; The consequences of truancy --; 2; Types of truants and incidence --; 3; Types of truancy --; 4; Causes of truancy: social perspectives --; 5; Causes of truancy: psychological indices --; 6; Educational causes of truancy --; 7; Government initiatives --; 8; School-based initiatives --; 9; Whole-school approaches to reducing truancy --; 10; Improving school attendance: school-based review --; 11; Teachers, teaching and truancy --; 12; An internal and an external solution: records of achievement and work placement schemes --; 13; OFSTED: guidelines on attendance and behaviour --; 14; Parents and truancy --; 15; Education welfare service --; 16; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index ER -