School Avoidance Awareness Week 2026 brings together leading experts, lived experience and practical solutions to help families and professionals better understand school avoidance and attendance difficulties.

Across five days of live webinars, resources and discussions, we'll explore everything from trauma, anxiety and sensory processing through to legal rights, safeguarding, alternative provision, flexible approaches and recovery.

Whether you're a parent feeling stuck, a professional wanting to do better, or someone supporting a child in distress, this week will help you move from confusion to confidence.

Because children are more than attendance data.

SCHOOL AVOIDANCE

School Avoidance Awareness Week isn't about helping children attend at any cost.

It's about understanding why attendance became difficult in the first place and what needs to happen next.



This year will see an even more in-depth approach to what we do now as parents and as professionals.