Pupil Watch undertook research about children's perceptions of risk, in and around school, and its links to non-attendance, supporting the attendance work of each of the Behaviour Improvement Programme clusters.

The research, in the form of a questionnaire, centred on children's understanding of risk and contained questions about the journey to school, non-attendance, age, gender and ethnicity.  The questionnaire format permitted large amounts of data to be collected, while retaining the anonymity of the pupils.

The questionnaire formed part of school citizenship class work that asked young people to discuss what they thought about bullying, truancy and crime.  The research results will be available soon.