"PCV have been commissioned by NYC to produce some guidance for use by schools and other related professionals to support young people who are struggling to attend school for reasons based on what is currently referred to as Emotionally Based School Avoidance.

We feel this is a fantastic opportunity to effect some change in approach on this issue in North Yorkshire.

We will be holding a series of focus groups to gather the views of parents and carers in relation to this. It is our intention to establish a working party of parents and carers within the county to meet on an on-going basis to generate a guidance document for use in schools and wherever appropriate

The initial meetings will be on a virtual platform to enable county-wide participation.  It is anticipated that some of the working party meetings will be face-to-face at appropriate venues. 

In addition we will have online questionnaires for yourselves and for young people and a dedicated email address parentcarervoice.ebsa@gmail.com that you can respond to with any questions, suggestions or ideas."

The meeting link can be found below