The right to education is enshrined in a very broad manner in law and in its various fields, international, national, regional, provincial and local. For this reason we work to instill families that education is a right and an obligation of all children, although we find families who understand this premise very differently.

Truancy, defined as the unjustified lack of attendance by a student, does not necessarily imply the existence of a problem of educational, and even less social. According to Decree 167/2003 is entederá for truancy lack of regular and ongoing student attendance in compulsory centers without reasons justifying schooling.

Be deemed to exist a situation Truancy when absences without justification within a month whether of 5 school days in primary education and 25 hours of classes in secondary education or equivalent to 25% of school days or school hours, respectively; and when in the opinion of the tutors and faculty attending students, the lack of assistance center may pose a risk to the student's education.

PROCEDURE FOR INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTION IN CASES OF TRUANCY

1. The educational 5 unexcused absences to school by a student produced center (Primary Education) or thirty hours per week (Secondary Education) in a month, either continuously or not, shall summon the parents / imputing guardians appearance in regarding the cause of the faults, and reporting referral of the case to the head of Municipal Truancy Program (hereinafter PAE) if relapse occurs after tutorials performances.

2. If after a month the student continue missing, and tutorials proceedings had not worked, the school sent to the PAE of the Municipal delegation of Education, the referral document includes the part of fault with the attendance of parents / guardians, and those documents it deems appropriate academic record and a record of social indicators has been passed to all schools. The administrative department of SAP, once recepcionado the case gives the high standard of absentees in the minors and record and document intervention is completed.

Once discharged, it is prepared with all the information we have to keep the family interview. The interview is done within a context of help, informing the family of few resources the family could choose, or those deemed could be applied to the identified need: financial benefits (social wage, non-contributory pension plan Public Aid , urban transport, home care, psychological support. either through Mental Health, Women's Advisory Center, or psychological programs Childhood Family, or Family Treatment This procedure is performed without ever losing the fundamental objective of this program, focusing especially on the obligation of the family to address the child welfare class, and informing the legal consequences of incumplimient9o of this duty. they were also shown how they have to justify absences for health reasons, through prescription, being this the only reason for the absences. in this interview the attendance of parents in relation to the causes that they argue is completed to "justify" the lack of attendance of children.

In relation to those family members who do not make themselves known in the Dependencies Municipal Delegation of Education once said, since all citations are sent through the service notifiers and delivered by hand, if the family does not come wing scheduled appointment, would intervene according to the third stage of the procedure.

In this procedure the workup of the family nucleus is made, in relation to determine the plan of social intervention, carried out according to the family, in addition to direct intervention by the responsible Caseworker of PAE, and the derivation of same professionals considered most appropriate. Such referral shall be made by the end plug created for this purpose, and subsequently and, if necessary, through coordination meetings with the professionals involved. all documents that could be useful to professionals to carry out the Study / Diagnosis of the case and the possible social participation therein would be attached.

Later these professionals issue a referral form to Caseworker of PAE, reporting the suitability of the inclusion of the case in the program and identification of equipment in which is included. This information will also be sent to school by PAE which led him, in order that the guardian has reference to the professional of these teams can turn to for information on the case.

3. If after one month, the Education Center to send the return of faults, the first intervention of the local police will be requested, which will carry out the following interventions:

• Quote parents / guardians in police and report these to the obligation to seek the assistance of the child or children to class and impact of criminal nature of the breach of this duty.
• Inform the Caseworker of PAE intervention described in the previous section.

If parents / guardians do not attend this event, the local police notified them a written statement notifying Act, which is informed of the consequences of the alleged offense of family abandonment in which might be incurred.

4. If after one month, the educational center to send the return of faults, the Caseworker of PAE would request the Local Police intervention 2nd. These will cite parents / guardians and take them as defendants statement and draw the corresponding police affidavit.

This document, together with the Social report (made by the Social worker PAE) and all updated documents supporting the intervention of SAP professionals and others involved, are presented to the Office of Child Protection.

Once sent to the prosecution will go following the steps that this body continues, and the resolutions that could be carried out.

From the Office of Protection of minors will be informed if they see from the Child Protection Service of the Ministry for Equality and Social Welfare.

From the Municipal Truancy Team also reports of these referrals to the Provincial Department of Education, Department of Educational guidance, and inspection.

5. Once received in the SAP, resolution of the case by Child Protective Prosecutor or the Court, shall be communicated to the school.

In parallel, and throughout the procedure the head teacher of the school of appropriate interventions will be informed through the information sheet.

At any stage of the proceedings in which the child regularized assistance, the school will send the document to regularize attendance.

Those cases at the end of the school year are in the 3rd stage of the procedure: First intervention and the local police will be sent to parents / guardians the warning letter, in which if the student continue skipping classes next school year the file will processing according to the established procedure.

EXCEPTIONS INTERVENE IN THE PROCEEDINGS

If minor-school will proceed as follows:

• In those cases detected by the school itself, it should report directly to the Provincial Office of Education, then to SAP.
• In those that have been detected directly by the PAE, or referred to this program by other professionals responsible social worker program, ask the local police 2nd intervention in the case, previously done by the Social Report, informing the Provincial Delegation of Education of these actions, department of educational guidance and inspection. Parallel social intervention in the family starts. Can reach up to the last phase if not finish lower absenteeism.
• In those cases detected by the local police, will refer directly to the Provincial Office of Education, the Office of Children, informing it subsequently responsible Caseworker of the PAE, in order that this professional start intervention in the case.