Ready-to-use tools, templates, training, official guidance and strategic resources for busy school staff. From tutors and attendance teams to senior leaders and governors, use the hub to save time, strengthen practice and turn attendance insight into action.
The original School Hub includes practical templates and reports for attendance champions, Heads of Year, attendance officers, governors and family casework. The strongest live versions are surfaced here first.
A practical toolkit for the senior attendance champion and wider school attendance team.
Open Attendance Champion Toolkit ↗Move from a static template to the live 2026/27 evidence-led readiness report.
Open live readiness report ↗Record attendance activity, priorities and measurable impact at year-team level.
Open live report ↗Create a cumulative attendance leadership report for senior assurance.
Open live impact report ↗Give governors a structured evidence trail for challenge and assurance.
Open governor assurance report ↗Capture operational workload, actions and contribution to improvement.
Open weekly impact report ↗Structure case conferences around evidence, voice, support, agencies and next actions.
Open case conference generator ↗Build a coordinated school plan around anxiety, confidence, adjustments and return.
Open EBSA action plan ↗Every card below points directly to the live resource currently published from the School Hub. Use the search box or filters to move quickly between casework, leadership, prevention, family partnership and operational tools.
Run a structured case review covering chronology, pupil and family voice, needs, interventions, agencies, actions and escalation.
Build an evidence-led readiness report for leadership, governance, inclusion and attendance ahead of the 2026/27 framework.
Prepare for difficult attendance conversations while protecting relationships, listening well and agreeing a meaningful next step.
Turn weekly Head of Year activity into a clear record of attendance priorities, actions, challenge and impact.
Review attendance letters for clarity, tone, purpose and whether they are likely to support constructive family engagement.
Spot cases where reviews, ownership, pupil voice, evidence or measurable impact may be drifting.
Capture the weekly contribution of attendance officers and administrators in a concise professional impact report.
Use structured prompts to move beyond the absence code and identify the barriers that may be driving non-attendance.
Create a focused next-morning plan when attendance is fragile and a small practical intervention could make the difference.
Build a practical school action plan around emotionally based school avoidance, confidence, adjustments and phased support.
Support a pupil returning after absence with a manageable reintegration and catch-up plan.
Identify pupils at risk of persistent absence early enough to intervene before patterns become entrenched.
Create a cumulative professional report for SLT or CEO-level assurance on attendance leadership, implementation and impact.
Check whether vulnerable pupils and groups are receiving sufficiently timely, coordinated and inclusive attendance support.
Identify where routines, transitions, spaces or expectations may be creating avoidable friction across the school day.
Give governors a structured way to test strategy, challenge impact and record attendance assurance.
Create and review a focused six-week attendance support plan with actions, ownership, measures and next steps.
Separate activity from impact by testing what changed, for whom, whether it lasted and what should happen next.
The School Hub is UK-wide and internationally connected. These links go directly to official government or national education sources rather than secondary summaries.
The original hub brings together Ofsted material, DfE attendance data, model resources, job-role content, media coverage, case studies and Attendance TV. This section keeps those strands visible without creating dead links.
Current official school inspection toolkit, operating guides and supporting information.
Open GOV.UK ↗Current published attendance statistics and national benchmarking information.
Open DfE statistics ↗Follow current attendance stories and the wider public conversation around absence, belonging and education.
Open Attendance News Desk ↗Access the School Hub's model attendance policies and procedures resource area.
Open policies & procedures ↗Role clarity matters: attendance leadership, administration and pastoral responsibilities need to be explicit.
Retain the original hub's case-study and video strands as places to share effective practice and professional learning.
The original School Hub signposts CPD packages. Keep that route prominent for leaders, tutors, teachers, SEND/EBSA colleagues, early career teachers and attendance teams.
GO TO CPD & TRAINING RESOURCES ↗The original hub invites schools to compare attendance policy and practice internationally. The official guidance cards above provide a direct starting point, while membership extends this into a growing country-profile library spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Keep UK examples visible so policy, systems and intervention can be connected to real school practice.
A space for practical discussion, interviews, briefings and attendance insight in a more accessible format.
Membership unlocks deeper profiles comparing what different education systems do well and which ideas may transfer into school practice.
Explore membership ↗Membership adds a growing library of professionally designed tools, editable templates, strategic reports and specialist guidance. Bespoke interactive reports and planning tools can also be developed around a school's or trust's priorities.
EXPLORE MEMBERSHIP ↗ PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ↗Together, schools and partners can build a more informed, connected and compassionate approach to attendance — one that combines high expectations with earlier identification, better support and stronger belonging.