absent employees
The latest news, insights and advice from the SAMpeople team
Can I contact my absent employee?
YES you can and YES you should! You have a duty of care to maintain reasonable contact with employees during...
Search Blog
Latest Posts
Tags
- 2025
- absence
- absence management
- absence management for schools
- absence management in schools
- Absence Management Procedure
- absence management software for schools
- absence managemet
- absence mangement
- absence policies
- absence policy
- absence records
- absence relating to sick babies
- absence reporting
- absence review
- Absence Review Meetings
- absent employees
- academisation
- academy conversion
- academy trust standards
- ACAS
- Administration
- advertising
- AI
- anxiety
- anxiety and depression
- Applicant Tracking
- Application Tracking
- Application Tracking Systems
- appraisals
- Apprentice
- apprenticeship
- Apprenticeships
- Arbor
- artificial intelligence
- asthma
- asthma uk
- ATS
- attendance clinics
- attendance management. dfe
- balanced diet
- Bank Holiday
- bereaved employees
- bereavement leave
- best candidate
- Bett awards
- breathing
- breathing exercises
- breathing techniques
- Brexit
- buddy scheme
- budget cuts in schools
- burnout
- Business Administration
- Business managers
- candidate transfer
- career
- careers
- case manamgement
- case study
- CBT
- centralised HR system
- CEO
- Certification
- CEV
- Chelsea
- childcare voucher scheme
- children matter
- children's mental health week 2019
- children's mental health week 2021
- CIPD
- CIPD Health and well-being at work 2018
- CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work 2019
- CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work report
- cipd health and wellbeing report
- CIPD Health and Wellbeing report 2020
- CIPD Health and Wellbeing report 2022
- CIPD mediation
- CIPD Report
- CIPD/Simplyhealth Health and Wellbeing at Work survey
- Coaching in schools
- collaboration
- colleges
- communication
- Company of the Year (less than £3m)
- compliance
- compliance checklist
- compliance tracker
- Confederation of Schools Trusts
- conflict at work
- contacting employees
- contract variations
- contracts
- coronavirus
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce fund for schools
- cost saving
- cost savings
- counselling
- counselling in schools
- COVID
- Covid-19
- criminal record filtering
- culture
- customer relationship officer
- customer success
- customer testimonial
- data administrator
- data centralisation
- data protection
- DBS
- DBS checks
- DBS Filtering
- Department for Education
- DfE
- DfE Guidance
- Digital
- discrimination
- Discussing mental health
- dismissal notice
- dismissals
- Dominic
- Donelien v Liberata UK
- DPO
- edtech
- edtech strategy
- education
- Education HR
- Education HR software
- education HR specialists
- education leaders
- education news
- education wales
- Educational Psychologist
- educationHR
- employee
- employee appreciation
- employee assistance programme
- employee engagement
- employee mental ill health
- Employee portal
- employee records
- employee well-being
- employee wellbeing
- employees
- employer
- employment
- employment appeal tribunal
- Employment checks for schools
- employment tribunal
- Employment Tribunal Fees
- equality act
- Equality Act 2010
- equality act 3
- Estyn report on staff attendance
- excellence in education
- Executive coaching for academies
- Executive coaching for head teachers
- FACE-Ed
- Facts
- family friendly policies
- Features
- FEPS
- financial support
- financial support for schools
- Fit notes
- fixed-term contracts
- flexible working
- focus
- forward thinking
- framework
- funding
- furlough
- further education workforce census
- furze down school
- Fusion
- FusionHR
- gdpr
- gender critical beliefs
- gender pay gap
- giving back to education
- Globe Motors Inc v TRW Lucas Variety Electric Steering Ltd
- goal setting
- government guidance
- government programme
- government strategy
- grievances
- HD Software UK
- headteacher
- Headteacher interview
- Headteacher recruitment
- headteacher retirement
- Headteachers
- Health
- health and safety at work
- Health and Safety Executive
- health and wellbeing for employers
- health and wellbeing for schools
- health and wellbeing in schools
- healthy eating
- healthy workplace
- hiring
- HOET
- Holiday Pay
- home office
- homeworking
- hours cap for teachers
- HR
- hr compliance
- HR data
- HR education specialists
- hr expertise
- hr for schools
- HR software
- HR software for education
- HR Software For Schools
- HR strategy
- hr support
- HR Support For Schools
- HR system
- HRIS
- HSE
- Identity verification
- ill health
- Inetgration with SIMS
- integrated systems
- integration
- interview
- Interview Questions
- Investigation
- Investigation Process
- ISO
- ISO 27001
- isolation
- isolation models
- isolation notes
- IVF treatment leave
- Job description
- Job descriptions
- job offers
- KCSIE
- Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Keeping Children Safe in Education: Statutory Guidance for Schools and Colleges
- key policies
- LADO
- LASBM Conference
- Leadership & Management Solutions
- leave
- Leave for Hospital appointments
- leave of absence
- leaveism
- Legal Advice
- length of absence
- Long COVID
- long-term absence
- long-term sickness
- mainstream schools
- managing absence
- managing absence relating to pregnancy
- managing employees with diabetes
- managing family leave
- managing leave
- managing people
- managing stress
- managing time
- Marie
- MAT
- maternity leave
- maternity pay
- maximising school resources
- May Bank Holiday
- media
- mediation
- medical
- Meet
- meet the team
- mental health
- mental health awareness for schools
- mental health awareness week
- Mental health in schools
- mental health support
- mental health week 14-20 May 2018
- mental ill health in schools
- mentoring
- mindfulness
- Mindfulness for schools
- mindfulness techniques
- Misconduct
- monitoring absence
- monitoring rounds
- motivation
- MSDs
- Multi-Academy Trust
- Multi-Academy Trust people management
- Multi-Academy Trusts
- Multi-Establishment Employee
- Myths
- NASBM guidance
- national apprenticeship week
- national stress awareness day
- National Work-Life Week
- negative emotions
- new development
- new headteacher
- New staff
- New starter
- news
- nhs track and trace
- O’Brien v Bolton St Catherine’s Academy
- occupational burnout
- Occupational Health
- occupational health for schools
- occupational health or schools
- Occupational Health referrals
- Occupational health services for schools
- occupational sick pay
- Ofsted
- parental bereavement
- paternity leave
- paternity leave for schools
- paternity leave in education
- Paternity rules
- pay reporting
- people management
- people management for schools
- People Performance Management
- People Performance Management Tracking
- perceptive discrimination
- performance
- performance appraisal
- performance management
- performance-related absence
- Phased return
- physical health
- policies
- policy
- policy papers
- positive mindset
- positve mental health
- PPA
- pre-employment health checks
- pregnancy-related sickness
- preparation
- presenteeism
- primary school
- prioritising
- procedure
- product launch
- Product update
- product updates
- progression
- protected groups
- pupil absence
- pupil attendance
- qualities
- raleigh education trust
- read in
- reasonable adjustments
- recruitment
- recruitment challenges
- recruitment software for schools
- reducing staff absence in schools
- reducing stress
- reducing stress at work
- reducing supply cover
- Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
- releationships
- remote working
- report
- retaining staff
- Retention
- Return to Work
- return to work meetings
- right to work check
- risk assessment
- ROA
- safeguarding
- safer
- Safer Recruitment
- Safer Recruitment for schools
- SAM
- SAM 12 Days of Christmas
- SAMpeople
- SAMpeople Payroll
- SAMpeople Recruit
- saving money for schools
- School
- school absence
- school budgets
- school business manager
- School Closures
- school deficits
- school expenditure
- school finances
- school funding
- school improvement
- school leaders
- School leadership
- School Policies
- School recruitment
- school staff absence
- school staff shortages
- School Workforce Census
- schools
- schools expenditure
- schools HR system
- schools news
- scr
- Secretary of State
- Selection
- self-isolation
- Senior Leaders
- shared parental leave
- shielding
- shielding advice
- short-term absence
- short-term staff absence in schools
- shortlisting
- sick leave
- sick pay
- sickness absence
- SIMS partner
- single central record
- single central register
- skillset
- software
- software for schools
- solutions
- sr
- staff
- staff absence
- staff absence management
- staff absence management for education
- staff absence management for schools
- staff absence management software
- staff absence management software for schools
- staff absence software for schools
- staff attendance policy for education
- staff engagement
- Staff Management
- staff retention
- staff retention in education
- staff well-being
- staff wellbeing
- staff wellbeing charter
- Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development
- state-funded schools
- statutory sick pay
- STPCD
- STRB
- stress
- stress and mental health in schools
- stress awareness month
- stress in education
- stress management
- Stress Prevention
- stress specialist
- Stress-related absence
- students
- succession planning
- summer
- supply costs
- support for children
- support for young people
- supporting staff
- Supporting staff mental ill health in education
- survey
- talent
- talent management
- talking about absence
- tax-free childcare
- teacher
- teacher absence
- Teacher and Leadership Pay Award Proposals
- Teacher Professional Development
- teacher recruitment
- Teacher Retention
- teacher shortages
- teacher wellbeing
- teacher workload
- Teachers
- technology in schools
- term-time absence
- testimonial
- The Education Select Committee Report
- The Key
- Thorncliffe Under 9's
- time off in lieu
- TOIL
- Top ten most common causes of absence and how to combat them
- top tips
- TRA report
- tracking absence
- tracking trends
- training
- triangulate data
- Trigger Mechanisms
- triggers
- Trust
- Trust Capacity Fund
- trusts
- TUPE
- unauthorised leave
- Utilising welfare meetings
- VE day
- virtual meeting
- wales
- Welcome
- welfare meetings
- wellbeing
- wellbeing at home
- wellbeing at work
- wellbeing in schools
- wellbeing packages
- wellbeing review
- wellbeing review questions
- wellbeing strategy
- wellbeing training
- wellbeing. mental health
- welsh
- winter blues
- winter illness
- winter sickness
- Witness list
- work-life balance
- work-life balance in schools
- work-related stress
- Working
- workplace
- workplace absenteeism
- world health and safety at work day
- world mental health day 2019
- write back
- yoga