Would your school contact you if your child doesn't arrive?

[ayla99]

Apparently dd's school have no policy of contacting parents if a child doesn't arrive in school.

I think the risk to dd en route is minimal - but I had assumed it would be policy to contact parent if they hadn't been given a reason for absence.

[mears]

Our secondary school sends out a text if your child does not arrive (1200 pupils). We have had 3 texts but children were actually there - hadn't been marked as present in registration. Don't mind the mistake though - shows texts get to us.

[butterflywings]

My sister's secondary school (1700 pupils) has the same policy as the one Fimbo talked about but, like mears, they only ever phone my mum when Dsis is at school.
And she often skips school, so it's not like they haven't had the opportunity to phone when she hasn't turned up

[rbj949703]

DD1's secondary school (roughly 1000 on roll) use this

You get repeated phone calls until you leave a message or phone school office and they cancel it.

[sugarfree]

Ds1's school does(1400 pupils)
I only found out because he was on a school rugby trip and the office hadn't been informed.

[mumeeee]

My daughters school also send out texts if your child has not arrived. We have had texts when they have been there. Usualy if they are at a singing class or Drama rehearsel.

[stillcryinginside]

Our Secondary school calls if you've not contacted them by 9.30 to inform them of a lateness or absence. I think it's a great idea and hopefully all schools will do this eventually. I'd rather know sooner rather than later that my child/ren hadn't arrived at school. If they were truanting they'd get a swift kick up the backside from me then taken into school to be dealt with there too. but if god forbid something awful had happened and the first you where aware of it was hours later when they didn't arrive home from school doesn't bare thinking about.
Please don't even get me started on lack of funding and/or resources when there are millions/billions found for other things

[expatinscotland]

Yes, after the murder of Ruaridh Black by a paroled peadophile, who hanged himself in his garden shed as the police closed in.

He'd booby-trapped the house knowing they were coming.

Thankfully, no police officers were injured.