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EBSA in Schools

Behaviour as Communication - A Whole-School Approach

Essential training for teachers, SENCOs, and school leaders on understanding and supporting Emotionally Based School Avoidance. Learn to recognise early signs, respond effectively, and create school environments that reduce EBSA risk.

What you'll learn

  • Understand EBSA as behaviour that communicates unmet needs
  • Recognise the three pathways and their implications for school support
  • Identify early warning signs before crisis point

Course modules

6 modules, each mapped to a Bloom's Taxonomy level so the learning ladders from recall to real-world practice.

  1. 1

    Behaviour as communication

    Bloom: Understand

    Reframing attendance data as a wellbeing signal.

  2. 2

    Early warning signs

    Bloom: Remember

    The pattern that shows up weeks before the absence does.

  3. 3

    Pathways in the classroom

    Bloom: Apply

    What each pathway needs from staff, hour by hour.

  4. 4

    Reasonable adjustments

    Bloom: Apply

    Adjustments that reduce demand without reducing ambition.

  5. 5

    Auditing your provision

    Bloom: Evaluate

    Judge your current attendance response against the evidence.

  6. 6

    Whole-school policy

    Bloom: Create

    Draft an EBSA-aware attendance policy for your setting.

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