FoSS 2024: Emotionally-Based School Non-Attendance

ESRC Festival of Social Science LogoTackling the EBSNA Conundrum Together

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, Dr Jess Kingston and Prof Dawn Watling, along with our collaborators on this event from the Surrey Community Foundation, Surrey Youth Focus, the Eikon Charity, and Mind Works, we brought together academics, charities and individuals with lived experience to tackle the EBSNA conundrum together.

This event tackled the very real and current issue of Emotionally-Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA) in Surrey.

This event tackles the very real and current issue of Emotionally-Based School Non-Attendance in Surrey. The workshop brings together multiple perspectives from academia (clinical, educational and developmental psychology), schools, charities and those with lived experience for a ‘whole-systems’ approach to EBSNA, discussing the full spectrum of experience from early-stage prevention to working with young people with pervasive non-attendance. Attendees will hear about evidence-based recommendations from leading social science researchers, discover how evidence can be embedded to support working with children and families and consider what is needed for potential funders to feel convinced that an intervention has worked. Through this event we aim to increase awareness of social science research and how it is translated into practice, and help refine research questions that academics ask, to share knowledge of how to evidence-base treatments and to facilitate networking amongst those working on EBSNA in Surrey.

Graphic image of the workshop
Community Foundation for Surrey