Attendance register and local-authority return checklist

Use this checklist for the school’s attendance-register monitoring and local-authority return arrangements. Apply cross-boundary steps only where a pupil resides in a different local authority area from the school.

Review pupils’ attendance every day through the attendance register and record completion of the daily monitoring activity in the school’s attendance records.

Review the attendance information for indications of poor or irregular attendance and identify pupils requiring proactive action.

Take and record proactive steps to address each identified pupil’s poor or irregular attendance.

Record the relevant local authority for the school and the return interval agreed with that authority for attendance returns highlighting pupils with poor or irregular attendance.

At each agreed return interval, make an attendance return to the relevant local authority for pupils whose poor or irregular attendance requires referral, and retain evidence of the return.

Where a pupil resides in a different local authority area from the school, identify the pupil’s home local authority and apply the cross-boundary notification and working steps.

If a pupil resides in a different local authority area from the school, notify and work with the pupil’s home local authority, and retain evidence of the notification and subsequent joint working.

For each applicable cross-boundary case, record the pupil’s home local authority, the notification made, the contact or case reference used, and any agreed follow-up or return arrangements.