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The A-Z Guide to Attendance for Education Professionals.

For schools, special/AP and post-16 settings. Twenty-six professional topics, each with a practice responsibility, a leadership assurance question, trusted national guidance and a fillable action/assurance sheet that can be completed on screen, printed or saved as PDF.

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Education Professional Attendance Charter

What excellent attendance practice asks of professionals.

Attendance is not a single team's task. It is the cumulative effect of culture, teaching, inclusion, systems, safeguarding, relationships, support and leadership.

Professional principle: keep expectations ambitious while actively identifying and reducing barriers. High expectations without support can become blame; support without purposeful review can become drift.
1. Get the basics rightAccurate registers, punctuality, first-day response and reliable data.
2. Notice earlyDo not wait for crisis thresholds before asking what changed.
3. Understand before interveningTest barriers using evidence, learner voice and family knowledge.
4. Protect belonging and accessTeaching, curriculum, SEND, behaviour and relationships all matter.
5. Work with familiesClear responsibilities, respectful communication and one coherent plan.
6. Coordinate professionalsNamed ownership, lawful information sharing and shared outcomes.
7. Review, don't repeatStop ineffective activity and change the hypothesis or response.
8. Prove impactMeasure what changed for the learner, not how busy adults were.
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Find the issue. Test the practice. Record the next action.

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