Expectations for your school
Your school is expected to (note that it's likely to be doing these things already!):
- Develop and maintain a whole school culture that promotes the benefits of high attendance (pages 9, 10 and 22)
- This includes having a designated senior leader with overall responsibility for championing and improving attendance in school
- For larger trusts, you may have a dedicated attendance lead to drive attendance improvement across the trust
- Have a clear school attendance policy, understood by all leaders, staff, pupils and parents (page 11)
- Accurately complete admissions and attendance registers, and have effective processes to follow-up absence (page 12)
- Regularly analyse attendance and absence data to identify pupils/cohorts that need support (page 14)
- Support pupils and parents/carers by working together to understand and address barriers to attendance (pages 15 to 17)
The rest of this article summarises section 3 of working together to improve school attendance. This outlines what's expected of the board of trustees in