The City Council launches preventive workshops against school absenteeism and evaluates their development in the Municipal Commission of Absenteeism.

Since the beginning of the school year, 75 cases have been registered in the schools of the municipality, which are being monitored individually and coordinated between the delegation of Social Welfare, schools and Local Police.

The City Council of Estepona reports that it has held a coordination meeting with the Technical Team of Truancy (ETAE) in the area of Estepona, which was attended by directors, heads of studies, counselors, social workers, representatives of the Local Police and the area of Social Welfare, as well as members of the municipal psycho-educational team.

The meeting has served to monitor the measures promoted in the framework of the Truancy Prevention Program developed by the Consistory, corresponding to the course 2025/2026, and has the collaboration and subsidy of the Territorial Delegation of Educational Development and Vocational Training of Malaga. At that meeting, the evolution of the cases detected in the schools of the municipality and the development of workshops and actions agreed at the constituent meeting held last October has been analyzed. Since the beginning of this school year there have been 75 cases of absenteeism in the various institutes of the municipality, situations that are being monitored individually in coordination with schools and families.

During the meeting, chaired by the Councilor for Social Welfare and Education, Maria Aguilar, has analyzed the evolution of the cases detected in schools in the municipality and the development of the actions agreed at the first meeting held last October.

One of the main points addressed has been the implementation of preventive workshops designed by the Consistory to act on the factors that affect truancy. Specifically, workshops on the prevention of addiction to social networks and new technologies, social skills, job orientation, school reinforcement and prevention of drug use, among other initiatives, are already underway.

These workshops, which will be held until the end of the current school year, aim to encourage regular class attendance, improve coexistence in the centers and provide students with personal, social and academic tools that favor their educational continuity.

The Commission has stressed the importance of maintaining an early and coordinated intervention between schools, Community Social Services and Local Police, in order to detect possible risk situations and provide support to both students and their families.

The Estepona City Council thus reaffirms its commitment to the prevention of truancy and the promotion of measures to help ensure equal opportunities and educational success of children in the municipality.