Working together to improve school attendance

This guidance is for:

• maintained schools
• academies
• independent schools
• local authorities

It is designed to:

• help schools, trusts, governing bodies and local authorities maintain high levels of school attendance
• summarise the roles and responsibilities of parents, schools, trusts, governing bodies and local authorities
• summarise the support that should be provided to families, including for pupils who are persistently or severely absent or at risk of becoming so
• provide details of attendance legal interventions available to schools and local authorities where support does not work, is not engaged with or is not appropriate
• provide details of what schools are required to record in the attendance and admission registers