This download has been designed to enable school leaders to summarise their work to improve attendance and present this concisely to inspectors, governors and members of the leadership team.
With Ofsted focusing on attendance as a key element of the inspection process and recently focusing on this in their own training, this download is based on the information they would require from a school and also the kinds of questions inspectors could ask as part of the process.
"Inspectors will expect schools to have done an analysis of absence and persistent absence rates for all pupils, and for different groups, compared with the published local and national averages for all pupils." School Inspection Handbook 2024
This is a really useful document for governors and school leaders, especially if a school is likely to be inspected this academic year.
