Updated 'Academic weeks start and end dates' in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' for the academic year 2026 to 2027.
Clarified details in the 'Who is included in the data' section in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Updated the 'Year 6 transition data download' section in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' to add a new section 'Explore you attendance patterns' and update 'Data you can access and use'.
Updated the 'Year 6 transition data download' section of 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' to reflect that absence data is uploaded in June, not May.
Added 'Who can access the transition data' to 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Updated the 'Attendance summary and similar schools reports' section of the user guide in line with updates to reports.
Updated the 'Attendance data downloads' section in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Updated data in the table for 'Academic weeks start and end dates' in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Updated the 'Attendance and sickness returns', 'Year-to-date comparison reports' and 'Attendance data downloads' sections in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'. Also added a new section, 'Export attendance and absence codes'.
Added a new section, 'Leavers in your local authority who have not enrolled at another school in England', to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Added 'Monitor your school attendance: fix common issues' and updated ‘Monitor your school attendance: technical issues’.
Updated the 'Attendance summary and similar schools comparison reports' section of the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
Updated the active and closed issues in 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' to add further information.
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' with improved information about how to use the tool.
Added the 'Attendance summary reports' section to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
On 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' we have updated active and closed issues.
Updated the user guide to clarify the pupil data in the attendance downloads and added a link to 'How to use the absence bandings report'. Updated the technical issues document with the latest active user issue - inaccurate attendance results - and how to fix it.
Added 'Monitor your school attendance: how to use the absence bandings report'.
On 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' we have added information on the check your leaver data report, how data is calculated in the tool and the differences between daily data and the fortnightly published stats. On 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' we have updated active and closed issues to help users resolve problems.
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' and 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' to close completed issues.
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' with information on 'The 10 days of continuous unauthorised absence report' and 'Year-to-date comparison reports'.
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' to include new codes.
Updated feature information and added new filters available within the tool. Data definitions have been updated with changes to attendance codes effective from 19 August 2024.
The monitor your school attendance data tool is available on the view your education data service. It provides useful information on your school’s attendance and absence.
You can use the tool to:
view secure attendance reports for the whole school, individual pupils or pupil characteristic groups
compare your school attendance within the local authority and see your school’s position for attendance and performance nationally