About the system
Truancy Call sends to parents whose children are absent from school, an automated phone call to their landline or mobile phone (in English and a variety of other languages), a text message to their mobile phone and an email. The parents are then required to respond to these messages by the same manner. Should a parent not respond an hour later they will be called again (text messages sent once only) then repeatedly until the parent responds up until 8pm (over a third of parental responses occur between 6-8pm).
Responses from parents are stored next to each pupil for the school to listen to or view. Each parental response is timed, dated and stored indefinitely. Once listened to or viewed on screen, the person operating Truancy Call
can add the appropriate attendance code and date the student is expected to return and this is written back* on to the Management Information System operated by school.
Not only does the system provide "First Day Contact", it does more. Rather than just sending a one way message which will result in a mass of parents/guardians calling back and clogging up school reception. Truancy Call, allows parents/guardians, as part of the automated phone call, to speak a reason for their child’s absence into the phone and should they have received a text message, then they can text the reasons for their child’s absence back.
Truancy Calls innovative service has met with
unprecedented success since launch in 2001.
The service has repeatedly received
recognition and praise throughout the
Education and Technology industry.
Find out how it works
News
- Recognising those who make a difference to lives of others - The Herald
- INSIDE BRITAIN'S GIRL GANGS - News of the World
- Victims of cyber bullying talk - The Sun
- County schools high on latest truancy figures - Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
- Sweep rounds up truants - Ipswich Evening Star
- Sweep to catch truant pupils - Weston & Somerset Mercury
- Truancy figures go down in Lincolnshire - Skegness Standard
- Why are we fingerprinting children? - Guardian Unlimited
- Fall in school truancy rates - This Is Cheshire
- Truancy on increase - Ed Exec
- Bobbies on the seat - Daily Post
Awards
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Lonsdale House,
52 Blucher Street,
Birmingham B1 1QU
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