The DfE have produced four new resources and tools to support school attendance:
- Explore your attendance patterns: As part of the ‘View your attendance data‘, this new data tool – a visual heatmap across the year – helps to spot patterns in your own data at a glance
- An attendance research report: setting out the national picture on some common predictable absence patterns
- An updated attendance toolkit for schools: with a new chapter (8) to help you understand what practical yet proportionate actions you can take
- A guide on communicating with parents about attendance: offering ready‑made evidence-based resources, such as animations, an NHS poster on illness decisions and useful templates
