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This guidance is for:

• maintained schools
• academies
• independent schools
• local authorities

It is designed to:

• help schools, trusts, governing bodies and local authorities maintain high levels of school attendance
• summarise the roles and responsibilities of parents and carers, schools, trusts, governing bodies and local authorities
• summarise the support that should be provided to families, including for pupils who are persistently or severely absent, or at risk of becoming so
• provide details of legal interventions available to schools and local authorities where attendance support does not work, is not engaged with or is not appropriate
• provide details of what schools are required to record in their attendance and admission registers

Further information, including a range of techniques for improving attendance and guidance on good practice is available.