Case Study: London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Inclusion Team
Helping London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Inclusion Team to achieve their ‘Best Chance in Life’ strategy through early intervention and reducing exclusions
In 2022 Pupil Pathways was awarded a contract to help London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) develop a case/risk management system to enable schools and the local authority (LA) to work together more efficiently to help keep children in education.
LBBD recognised that a more effective system for sharing information needed to be put in place to help them meet the growing challenges of attendance, transition and children at risk of exclusions. Out of this partnership with LBBD the product Foresight was created.
Foresight was successfully rolled out across all schools in LBBD in April 2024. It is used in tandem with Pupil Pathways’ existing transition service SixIntoSeven, which enables primary schools to create a detailed pupil profile for transition and share securely with the destination secondary school. LBBD has used SixIntoSeven since 2023 to manage the cohort admission from Y6 to Y7. They are the first local authority to use both Pupil Pathways products in tandem.
We spoke to Exclusion Lead David Botterill to find out more about the positive impact that Pupil Pathways has had and how our products are supporting the Inclusion Team to deliver on their Best Chance in Life Strategy aims and the requirements of the new statutory government guidance on working together to improve attendance.
To find out more about how Pupil Pathways can support your local authority to reduce exclusions and improve attendance, get in touch with our team.