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:

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.

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 

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

Format: Editable word document
Number of pages: 6
Approximate time saved: 12 hours