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Attendance Checklist for Governing Boards, Trusts and School Leaders (July 2026)

Checklist to review attendance practice using the 2024 DfE 'Working together to improve school attendance' guidance.

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A checklist of what the DfE's statutory attendance guidance expects of governing boards, academy trusts and schools in England. Work through it with your Senior Attendance Champion and the governor or trustee who links on attendance, and record when each item was checked.

Which guidance it reflects

Written against the July 2026 edition of Working together to improve school attendance, updated on GOV.UK on 9 July 2026. It includes that edition's clarifications on taking the register at the same time for all pupils, benchmarking, young carers, illness-related absence and leave of absence.

What's inside

  • Part A, for governing boards and trusts: promoting attendance, holding leaders to account, reviewing data, staff training, and a section for multi-academy trusts and federations
  • Part B, for schools and headteachers: the Senior Attendance Champion and attendance policy, registers and daily follow-up, data and returns, and support for persistent and severe absence
  • A sign-off for the chair and the headteacher or Senior Attendance Champion
  • References and a disclaimer

Format: editable Word document, 3 pages.

General guidance for schools in England, not legal advice. It does not replace the full guidance or your local authority's procedures.

Further reading: our summary of the DfE's Working together to improve school attendance guidance.

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