FUNCTIONS OF CHILD WELFARE AND ATTENDANCE OFFICE

Functions of Child Welfare and Attendance Office

Functions of Child Welfare and Attendance Office

Part One: Mission

The Child Welfare and Attendance office aims to provide information, resources, and support services in the areas relating to Child Welfare and Attendance for the sixteen school districts in Sacramento County, as well as to SCOE education programs. These areas include: local school district School Attendance Review Boards (SARB), expulsion hearings and appeals, interdistrict transfers and appeals, private school affidavits, home school information, safe school assessment (school crime reporting) for county run schools, truancy reduction projects, liaison for Probation Referrals from district SARBs, Countywide SARB, publications and forms, liaison to California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance (CASCWA), provide direct service district function and state/district liaison as specified by Education Code section 48240.

What are its Employees Supposed To Accomplish?

The employees of the Child Welfare and Attendance aims to achieve excellence in service and customers' satisfaction

Lindbaek, Wefring, Grangård and Øvsthus (2003) mention Child Welfare and Attendance is a specialized student support service that covers compliance with compulsory education laws, student admission and enrollment procedures, student discipline procedures, transfers to alternative programs, and school climate and safety. Child Welfare and Attendance combines the knowledge and skill of counseling with knowledge of education and the law to resolve complicated situations involving school choice, student discipline, campus safety, and programs for high-risk youth (Lindbaek, Wefring, Grangård and Øvsthus, 2003).

What are the Main Functions of Child Welfare and Attendance?

Main functions of Child Welfare and Attendance are different. Child Welfare and Attendance focuses on compulsory attendance; discipline of students (including suspensions and expulsions); the duties of principals, teachers, and other school personnel in complying with regulations and policies; and the responsibilities of students and their parents or guardians in complying with regulations and policies. Louisiana law provides that the Departmentof Education and each local education agency (LEA) have the responsibility of assuming leadership roles in initiating, maintaining, and supervising programs that affect Child Welfare and Attendance (Musterd, 2005).

Selected school attendance practices identified as having a positive effect in encouraging students to regularly attend all their high school classes.

The Office of Child Welfare and Attendance actually oversees a wide array of important functions for the school district. These include oversight to ensure that civil rights are protected and that the district's discrimination and harassment policy is properly implemented. Information on these two areas is contained on a separate webpage on Civil Rights. Similarly, there are some areas that relate to specific parent and family needs, including information on immunizations, students who are homeless or in foster/kinship families, a variety of support services for students and/or families having difficulties. Information on these and other areas is contained on a separate webpage on Parent Resources (Musterd, 2005).

Part Two: Philosophy

Child Welfare and Attendance philosophy is to impart excellent services.

The following practices have been identified as strategies and activities having a positive effect in encouraging students to regularly attend all their high school ...