
Your step-by-step guide to managing and improving School Attendance – including tools, checklists and templates you can use in your setting!
What makes the School Attendance Officer Certificate different?
- Our easy-to-use online system will let you work through the training at your own pace
- Hear from our top expert specialising in all school attendance topics
- Access to a wide range of tools, templates and checklists that you can download and start using in your school straight away
- Get practical advice and tips on managing the entire attendance process
- Recieve your specialist certificate at the end of your course to demonstrate your learning and preparation
- The course is CPD accredited
11 full modules (Modules 10 and 11 are only available with level 2)
40+ videos
Downloadable tools, checklists and templates for School Attendance Officers
**Please note: access to the course will not be granted until payment has been made.**
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How will this help you in your role?
✔ Everything you need to know about school attendance without leaving your school
✔ Access to tools to help you make your job easier
✔ Minimise the time you spend on preparation
✔ Make staff training easy
✔ Save money on consultant fees
Agenda
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- Module 1:
Attendance and the law
- Roles and responsibilities of Schools and Local Authorities
- The Legal Framework
- Parental Responsibility
- Statutory School Age
- The law and enforcement in relation to non-school attendance
- Code of Conduct for Issue of Penalty Notices
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- Module 2:
Attendance and the law- Keeping pupil registers
- Legal requirements for keeping Pupil Attendance Registers
- Accurate use of absence and attendance codes
- Housekeeping and challenging poor register taking
- Lesson monitoring
- First day calling/absence procedures
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- Module 3:
Attendance, Safeguarding and CME
- Understanding Attendance as a potential indicator or abuse of Neglect
- Children Missing Education
- Policy and Procedures
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- Module 4:
Developing a whole school policy and approach to improve school attendance
- School Policy
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Contents
- Consultation with Parents
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- Module 5:
Understanding and using attendance data
- Individual
- Groups and whole school
- Understanding data
- Identifying patterns and trends
- Producing reports
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- Module 6:
Attendance and Inspection
- Understanding the Inspection Framework in relation to attendance
- Pre and Post Ofsted
- Communication
- Implementation
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- Module 7:
Working with children and families and others to improve attendance and reduce PA
- Escalating approach
- Working with parents
- Home visits
- Chairing Meetings
- Assessment and Action Plans
- Multi Agency Working
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- Module 8:
Understanding the reasons for Persistent absence (PA) and poor attendance
- Understanding Persistent absence as a measure
- Understanding the reasons for and causes of Persistent Absence
- Assessment in complex cases
- PA and SEN
- PA and Mental Health
- PA and School Refusal
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- Module 9:
Addressing concerns about Punctuality
- Recording and Monitoring late arrivals
- Strategies for improving punctuality for individual children
- Whole School Approaches to improving Punctuality
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- Module 10: *LEVEL 2 ONLY*
Reintegration from long term absences
- Strategies around health
- Mental health
- SEN
- Best practice
- Specific challenges and issues to address reintegrating from closure
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- Module 11: *LEVEL 2 ONLY*
Safe and Well checks/visits
- Expansion on home visiting that addresses home visits for safeguarding children
- Maintaining contact in periods of long absence.
- Specific challenges and issues to address reintegrating from closure

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Level 1 Ticket
- Module 1: Attendance and the law
- Module 2: Attendance and the law- Keeping pupil registers
- Module 3: Attendance, Safeguarding and CME
- Module 4: Developing a whole school policy and approach to improve school attendance
- Module 5: Understanding and using attendance data
- Module 6: Attendance and Inspection
- Module 7: Working with children and families and others to improve attendance and reduce PA
- Module 8: Understanding the reasons for Persistent absence (PA) and poor attendance
- Module 9: Addressing concerns about Punctuality
- Module 10: Reintegration from long term absences
- Module 11: Safe and Well checks/visits
£299.99 + VAT
Book Level 1Level 1 & 2 Ticket
- Module 1: Attendance and the law
- Module 2: Attendance and the law- Keeping pupil registers
- Module 3: Attendance, Safeguarding and CME
- Module 4: Developing a whole school policy and approach to improve school attendance
- Module 5: Understanding and using attendance data
- Module 6: Attendance and Inspection
- Module 7: Working with children and families and others to improve attendance and reduce PA
- Module 8: Understanding the reasons for Persistent absence (PA) and poor attendance
- Module 9: Addressing concerns about Punctuality
- Module 10: Reintegration from long term absences
- Module 11: Safe and Well checks/visits
£329.99 + VAT
Book Level 1 & 2