Admission and attendance registers
All schools are required by law to have:
- An admission register and
- An attendance register, which must be kept electronically
Note: schools where all pupils are boarders don't need an attendance register.
The new statutory attendance guidance includes a requirement for your school to share its daily attendance data (paragraph 51).
All pupils must be placed on both registers from the beginning of the pupil's first day of attendance, regardless of their age.
School proprietors who don't comply with these regulations are guilty of an offence and can be fined.
This is set out in the attendance guidance (paragraphs 31, 205 and 280).
Information required in the admission register
The personal details of all pupils in your school Pupils' dates of admission or readmission Details of parents/carers Details of the last school a pupil attended, if any For boarding schools – whether the pupil is a boarder or