Department For Education
August 19
09:00
2024
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, and to pupils who are persistently or severely absent, or at risk of becoming so
- provide details of the legal interventions available to schools and local authorities when 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 register
Further information, including a range of techniques for improving attendance and guidance on good practice is available.