Attendance & absence
- How to evaluate your school's absence and attendance figures Read our tips on monitoring and challenging your school's attendance figures by questioning the senior leadership team, benchmarking against national data, and understanding how Ofsted will use your data.
- School attendance Read our 1-page summary of the rules on school absence, attendance and term-time holidays.
- School attendance: legal requirements Understand the rules on pupil absence, including your school's admission register and attendance register. We summarise the laws you need to know about, and look at parent penalties and term-time holidays.
- Tackling poor pupil attendance To tackle poor attendance, try these strategies from an education welfare officer and our associate experts. Read our case study from a school with a high percentage of pupils eligible for the pupil premium.