School Daily Attendance and Children Missing Education Prevention Checklist

Review the attendance register for the day and identify unexpected absences, unexplained absence entries and attendance patterns requiring follow-up.

Check that unexpected absences have been followed up through the school’s attendance process and that relevant information has been recorded.

Review pupils with poor or irregular attendance and identify cases requiring proactive action to prevent the pupil becoming a child missing education.

Record the action taken or planned for each pupil requiring proactive attendance support, including the person responsible for progressing the case under the school’s process.

Where attendance information indicates an emerging children-missing-education concern, escalate it through the school’s case-handling and safeguarding arrangements.

Check whether an attendance return is due under the interval agreed with the relevant local authority, where that arrangement applies.

Where an attendance return is due, prepare the return using the school’s attendance information and identify pupils with poor or irregular attendance.

Where an attendance return is due and the relevant local-authority arrangement requires it, submit or otherwise make the return through the agreed route.

Where a pupil resides in a different local-authority area from the school, check that the relevant local authority has been notified and that the school is working with that authority where required.

Record any outstanding attendance return, local-authority notification, referral or case-handling action for follow-up by the responsible person.

Record relevant exceptions, unresolved issues and follow-up arrangements from today’s attendance review.