School refusal: parents forced to quit jobs to care for children who won’t go to class, inquiry told

An empty classroom at a primary school in Brisbane. A Senate inquiry is looking into the growing trend of school refusal after Covid closures.An empty classroom at a primary school in Brisbane. A Senate inquiry is looking into the growing trend of school refusal after Covid closures.Some parents have been forced to quit their jobs or scale back their hours to care for children who won’t go to class, a Senate inquiry into the concerning trend of school refusal has been told.

The federal Senate’s education committee in October announced it would undertake an inquiry into the emerging trend of “school refusal” – a phenomenon experts say is linked to distress or separation anxiety, and on the rise since the pandemic. The first round of submissions to the inquiry reveals major concerns about school refusal from psychological experts and parent groups. The Queensland Independent Schools Parents Network wrote that it was aware of “parents who had to quit their jobs – or significantly scale back their hours – to care for a child who is refusing to go to school and can’t be left unsupervised at home”.

The inquiry’s terms of reference specifically note the committee will investigate how school refusal affects children and their families, including the impacts on employment of their parents, and the increasing case load on specialist service providers and schools to support those families. “Given the moderate heritability of anxiety and depression, parents of children with anxiety and depression unable to attend school are also more likely to experience anxiety and depression, adding further complexity to the difficult task of encouraging their children to attend school.”

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