04·Attendance & Persistent Absence
Every Day Counts,
Confident Schools
School attendance strategies for secondary schools (PDF)
Written to the July 2026 statutory guidance: how a secondary school finds the children who are slipping, understands why, and gets them back — before absence becomes a safeguarding matter.
- 1Expect
- 2Notice
- 3Understand
- 4Support
- 5Escalate
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Persistent absence is rarely a single decision. It is a slope, and the children on it are usually visible in the data weeks before anyone acts.
This booklet is about noticing earlier and responding better: what the statutory guidance now requires, what the registers are actually telling you, and what to do at each stage before absence becomes a safeguarding matter.
- Written to
- DfE July 2026 statutory guidance & the Ofsted inspection toolkit
- Intended for
- classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review
- Extent
- 61 pages · 56 sections
—·Look inside
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—·Contents
All 56 sections
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