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1 Emotionally Based School Avoidance: Guidance for Educational Settings Published: September 2020 Educational Psychology Service 2 Purpose/Aims Staffordshire County Council s Recovery Plan has been devised in the context of COVID-19. This plan incorporates a number of projects across SCC services, including the Educational Psychology Service (EPS) to support educational settings in the aftermath of emergency restrictions. The EPS have devised materials in a number of areas with the aim of providing educational settings with support that can be accessed immediately in the new academic year, without the need to refer into the service directly. It is likely the extended absence from educational settings will have exacerbated existing needs linked to Emotionally Based School avoidance (EBSA), meaning intervention and support will be required to return pupils to regular attendance.
This notion of school avoidance has been conceptualised in a wide variety of ways, and within the literature is referred to using a number of terms including ‘school refusal’ and ‘school phobia’. ‘School refusal’ is commonly used; however, this can be seen to be problematic, as it implies wilful behaviour on the part of the CYP
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