New services

Reaching out

Children can struggle with school attendance for many reasons, but one thing is sure – missing school consistently can have a damaging impact on young lives.

A new service called REACH (Respond, Engage, Ask, Connect, Hope) is helping children in Glasgow City who have prolonged non-attendance or are starting to show signs of nonattendance at school.

Run jointly by Glasgow City Council and Quarriers, it is Glasgow’s first emotionally-based school nonattendance service and will be available to all 140 primary schools and 30 secondary schools in the city.

Across Scotland there has been an increase in the number of children experiencing challenges in relation to their school attendance since the Covid pandemic.

REACH staff will work one-to-one with children to help build strengths and discover what works best for them.

The team will work with children throughout the year including during summer holidays and will be one of the 32 Quarriers services who could benefit from the annual Children’s Fund appeal, which will launch in May.

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