The Education Welfare team joined Integra Schools (previously South Gloucestershire Traded Services) in October 2013 so have been providing traded attendance and attainment related support to schools since then. For ten years prior to that two members of the team worked as Education Welfare Officers with South Gloucestershire so have a long track record of working with the majority of the secondary schools, special schools and primary schools in South Gloucestershire. Their work involves school visits to review attendance systems, policies and procedures, and individual casework including home visits and other interventions as well as non-attendance prosecutions in the Magistrates Court.