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Privacy notice: school attendance data collection

Details of the privacy information the Department for Education (DfE) collects as part of the school attendance data collection.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 28 August 2026

Applies to England

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Privacy notice: school attendance data collection

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This document explains what pupil-level attendance data we collect from the daily attendance registration records that schools are required to collect.

This work is carried out by the data directorate at DfE. For the purpose of data protection legislation, DfE is the data controller for the personal data processed as part of school attendance data collection.

Published 28 August 2026