Guidance and regulation

Guidance for schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities on maintaining high levels of school attendance, including roles and responsibilities.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 7 March 2024

• Toolkit for schools: communicating with families to support attendance

  This toolkit provides examples to help you communicate with parents and…

Summary of responsibilities where a mental health issue is affecting attendance and examples of effective practice.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 7 February 2023

Statutory guidance for local authorities and advice for other groups on helping children who are missing education get back into it.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 5 September 2016

How schools can share daily attendance data.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Statutory guidance for schools, local authorities and the police on dealing with poor attendance and behaviour in schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 29 May 2020

How local authorities can share aggregate data on children who receive elective home education (EHE) and those children missing education (CME).

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 March 2024

Ministry of Defence advice to headteachers regarding school term time absence for children of service personnel.

• From: Ministry of Defence
• Updated: 8 September 2021

How we produce statistics on pupil absence in schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 12 January 2023

How we produce statistics on pupil attendance in schools.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 12 January 2023

How the Department for Education (DfE) publishes parental responsibility measures for attendance statistics for England.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 December 2022

Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities using the monitor your school attendance tool.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 March 2024