Her education welfare officer urges her to get an education.

From 1970-2, she was an education welfare officer for the Manchester Education Committee.

The education welfare officers told me I was wasting my life and I'd never amount to anything if I didn't go to school.

Brian Field, principal education welfare officer in Stockport, said pupils in grant-maintained schools were particularly vulnerable.

Education welfare officer (EWO)

To cut a long story short, the social worker focused on S's non-school attendance, transferred the case to the education welfare officer and recommended removal of her name from the register.

Imogen was born to Charles Thomas, an education welfare officer, and his wife Janette in Gorseinon, near Swansea, South Wales.

Married with two small children, 38-year-old Mr. Keech spent three years as an education welfare officer in the late 1970s, before turning to teaching including a spell as deputy headteacher.

Schools tackle casual truancy by having good monitoring systems, a member of senior staff in charge of attendance, regular, timetabled liaison withe the education welfare officer and special classes or groups.

There is no duty to disclose information provided by or on behalf of another person other than an employee of the local education authority, an education welfare officer or the person seeking disclosure.

As with education welfare officers, their job involves travelling in the community rather than being part of the central LEA administration, and so they also generally work in area teams based in a local school.

In some areas, 'truancy patrols' have been set up, consisting of teams of usually two persons (an education welfare officer (EWO) and a police officer) who question youngsters who look as though they should be at school.

Where they are still organized separately from social services, education welfare officers can sum up an area's state of mind as well as help - or question - individual families, at least up to the time when centralized social work services are cut back.

My mum told the education welfare officers this story, and together they looked back at it and told me my hair fell out because I was worried about going to high school and it proved I was already anticipating the change with dread.

Central government may also be expected to monitor the implementation of the Elton Committee's recommendations if not to provide the extra resources necessary for the extended role for (and numbers on education welfare officers, teachers and LEA officers envisaged by the Report.

It urges links between guidance teachers and other agencies, such as social work, education welfare officers and children's panels, and to work on a flexible approach to the curriculum, enabling fourth year leavers to follow particular classes while performing work experience and voluntary work in the community.

It was all the education welfare officers, the endless meetings, the counsellors, the constant pressure to do something I'd already made up my mind not to do, the pressure to explain when my explanation was never, could never, be acceptable to them, that brought on this deep and immovable unhappiness.

She told me it would be hard for anyone to trust an 11-year-old to know what was best for her, that the education welfare officers and other suits involved with the case threatened her - regularly - with prison if she didn't get me to school, without giving her any useful information about how.