Guides for parents
Guides for parents
Written for parents in the UK who are trying to understand why school has become so hard for their child. Each guide is plain English, free to read, and does not diagnose anything.
EBSA support for parents
What EBSA is, who can help in the UK, what support may be available, and what you can record and share with school.
Read this guideWhat is an EBSA Support Plan?
What a Support Plan contains, who can write one, how to share it with school and how to review it over time.
Read this guideEBSA assessment: what it can and cannot establish
What an assessment or exploration looks at, and how it differs from a Support Plan, tracking, an EHCP and a clinical assessment.
Read this guideEBSA and school fines
How attendance enforcement in England works, what to record, and what to ask school and the local authority to consider.
Read this guideEBSA evidence for school meetings and EHCP requests
What to record day by day, how to describe it clearly, and how the same record can be used in a school meeting or an EHC needs assessment request.
Read this guideWhat is EBSA?
Emotionally based school avoidance explained in plain English: what it means, what it can look like and what it is not.
Read this guideSchool anxiety
How school anxiety shows up, why a child can seem fine at school and struggle at home, and what tends to help.
Read this guideMy child will not go to school
Where to start on the hard mornings, and how to begin building a record school will take seriously.
Read this guideSupport Sheets
Printable sheets you can share with family, siblings, co-parents and school.
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