Access your school attendance data
Guidance on how to use the View your education data service to access the Monitor your school attendance tool.
Applies to England
Monitor your school attendance
Sharing daily attendance data with the Department for Education (DfE) means schools, their trust and local authority can access the Monitor your school attendance tool, which is available on the View your education data (VYED) service.
Find out how to use the tool in the Monitor your school attendance: user guide.
You will need to request access from someone at your organisation to log in for the first time. You will receive an email when you have been given access. You can then log in to the VYED service to use the Monitor your school attendance tool.
This attendance data will:
- give schools, local authorities and academy trusts access to more up-to-date pupil-level attendance data
- allow mainstream schools to compare their attendance with other schools
- help you meet the new expectations set out in working together to improve school attendance
Schools should use the data to help improve attendance by:
- identifying trends and pupils who need support
- sharing attendance data with their board, governing body and local authority
Pupil attendance in schools data from national and local authorities is published on Explore Education Statistics every 2 weeks.
How to get access
To access the data:
- Log in to VYED using your DfE Sign-in credentials.
- Go to ‘services’ and ‘add services to my account’.
- Select your organisation.
- Request access to ‘VYED’ then the sub-service ‘school attendance data’.
This sends an email request to your school’s approver. You should receive an email within 5 days from dfe.signin@education.gov.uk confirming approval.
Once you have requested access, an email will be sent to your organisation’s approver.
Once they have approved the request, you will receive an email confirming this.
Problems getting access
To resolve problems getting access in your DfE sign account, you can:
- check the status of a request
- find your organisations approver
If there are no approvers for your organisation, your request will be sent to the DfE Sign-in team to be approved. Once they have approved the request, you will receive an email confirming this. It can take up to 5 working days.
If you are an approver
To access the tool for yourself, log in to DfE Sign-in and add the service ‘view your education data’ and ‘school attendance data’.
To give someone else access, select the approve button in the email request from dfe.signin@education.gov.uk and follow the steps.
Get help
You can raise an enquiry if you are struggling to access your school daily attendance reports.
Updates to this page
Last updated 22 August 2024 + show all updates
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Added a link to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' and updated access instructions.
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Added links to the 'View your education data', 'How to-register for an IDAMS account' and 'DfE Sign-in' pages.
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First published.