Attendance register session and code assurance checklist

Use this checklist for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England. If all pupils at the school are boarders, do not apply this checklist. For other schools, apply the pupil-coverage and national-code checks to the pupils covered by the cited requirement.

Select the session being assured.

Enter the date of the register session being checked.

Record the time at which the register was taken.

Confirm that the morning register was taken at the beginning of the morning session, or that the afternoon register was taken once during the afternoon session, typically at its start.

Confirm that the register was taken at the same time for all pupils registered at the school.

Record the observed interval from opening the register to closing it. The recorded interval must not exceed the cited maximum.

For an applicable school and session, confirm that every pupil whose name was listed in the admission register at the time was included, covering pupils of compulsory and non-compulsory school age and excluding boarders where the cited exception applies.

For an applicable school and session, confirm that the appropriate national attendance or absence code was entered for every applicable pupil listed in the admission register at the time.

Record any timing, duration, pupil-coverage or coding exception identified during this assurance check, or state that no exception was identified.