Improving School Attendance Audit Tool

Created by school leaders to help schools effectively identify issues related to pupil attendance.

This is a comprehensive audit tool based on the recent blog by Ofsted's Lee Owston, 'Improving school attendance' and helps to evaluate your school's current practices across five key areas:

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1. Attendance Data: Monitoring and analysis of attendance records.
2. Identifying Barriers to Attendance: Understanding what factors contribute to absenteeism.
3. Implementing strategies to improve attendance.
4. Communication: Enhancing interaction with pupils, parents, and staff regarding attendance issues.
5. Safeguarding: Ensuring student safety and well-being are accounted for in attendance practices.

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This audit tool will help you to:

• Identify and address attendance issues, allowing you to pinpoint specific attendance problems and tailor strategies accordingly.
• Analyse attendance data, to identify patterns in absences amongst pupils and groups of pupils.
• Implement targeted strategies 

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Potential benefits of using the tool:

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1. Gain an enhanced understanding of attendance patterns and causes.
2. Have an effective and impactful strategy plan for improving pupil welfare and attendance.
3. Focus on improving pupil attendance by having a clear plan in place.
4. Focus on a strengthened school-community relationship by having a plan in place.

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You can find out more about improving attendance by reading our blog here.