Guidance

Access your school attendance data

How to access your school attendance data through the Monitor your school attendance tool.

From:
Department for Education
Published
7 June 2023
Last updated
8 May 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Monitor your school attendance

Schools, academy trusts and local authorities can access the Monitor your school attendance tool. This is available on the View your education data (VYED) service.

The tool includes interactive dashboards and downloads for the daily attendance data your school shares with the Department for Education (DfE).

Review the Monitor your school attendance: user guide for information about the different features and dashboards you can use.

How to get access

You will need to request access to VYED and the Monitor your school attendance data tool using your DfE Sign-in account.

If you do not have a DfE sign-in account

You will need to create a DfE sign-in account first.

It will ask you to request access to your organisation. This is your school, trust or local authority.

Once you’ve sent your request, your organisations approver will get an email. They will need to approve your request before you can get access to your attendance data.

Request access to the Monitor your school attendance tool

To access your school attendance data request access:

  1. Log in to DfE Sign-in.
  2. Go to ‘services’ and ‘request access to a service’.
  3. Select your organisation.
  4. Request access to ‘VYED’ then the sub-service ‘Monitor your school attendance’.

This sends an email request to your organisations approver. You should receive an email within 5 days from dfe.signin@education.gov.uk confirming approval.

If there are no approvers for your organisation, your request will be sent to the DfE Sign-in team to be approved.

After you request access

Once you request access, an email is sent to your organisation’s approver. You will get an email once they have approved the request. This will confirm you have access.

You can check the status of a request under the ‘Requests’ section of your DfE Sign-in account.

Different types of access for trusts

Trusts can get access to the trust and school versions of the tool.

Before you can request access to school dashboard, you will need to add the relevant school organisation via your DfE Sign-in account. Once approved, you can request to add services for that school. 

Problems getting access

To resolve problems getting access in your DfE sign-in account, you can review help articles for:

Get help

You can raise an enquiry through the DfE Customer Help Portal if you are struggling to access or use the Monitor your school attendance tool.

Updates to this page

Published 7 June 2023
Last updated 8 May 2025 show all updates

  1. Updated with information on how to access the view your education data service.

  2. Updated the page to clarify how to access the 'View your education data' service.

  3. Added a link to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' and updated access instructions.

  4. Added links to the 'View your education data', 'How to-register for an IDAMS account' and 'DfE Sign-in' pages.

  5. First published.

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