Understanding Statutory Attendance Expectations
Duration: 2 hours
Audience: All school staff
Overview: Provides essential knowledge on daily attendance responsibilities, persistent absence thresholds, legal processes, and safeguarding implications. Ideal for INSET or twilight CPD.
Delivery Format: Interactive workshop with Q&A and case studies
Strategic Attendance Leadership for SLT
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: SLT, Heads, Deputies, DSLs, Attendance Leads
Overview: Supports school leaders to embed a culture of strong attendance, align strategies with SIP, and evidence leadership to Ofsted.
Delivery Format: Planning-based session, extendable to half-day
Attendance Training/CPD
Effective Attendance Case Management
Duration: 3.5 hours
Audience: Attendance Officers, Pastoral Leads, EWOs
Overview: Equips staff to create, maintain, and review attendance case files with precision and legal robustness.
Delivery Format: Interactive workshop with Q&A and case studies
Attendance, Inclusion & Safeguarding
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: DSLs, SENCOs, Inclusion Leads, Pastoral Teams
Overview: Explores how poor attendance links to safeguarding thresholds and supports trauma-informed intervention planning.
Delivery Format: Safeguarding-linked workshop
Governor Oversight of Attendance
Duration: 1.5 hours
Audience: Governors and Trustees
Overview: Clarifies the strategic role of governance in driving school attendance and monitoring compliance.
Delivery Format: Governor meetings or group virtual delivery
Preparing for Ofsted
Duration: 2 hours
Audience: SLT and Attendance Leads
Overview: Focused on helping schools evidence their strategic intent, implementation, and impact to Ofsted inspectors.
Delivery Format: Interactive workshop with Q&A and case studies
Parental Engagement & Attendance Communication
Duration: 2.5 hours
Audience: All staff who liaise with families
Overview: Equips staff to engage families in attendance improvement using positive, restorative, and culturally sensitive approaches.
Delivery Format: Interactive workshop with Q&A and case studies
Children Missing Education (CME)
Identification, Response & Compliance
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: DSLs, Attendance Leads, Admin/Admissions, SLT
Overview: Covers statutory duties and best practice in identifying, recording, and preventing CME, with a safeguarding emphasis.
Delivery Format: Interactive workshop with Q&A and case studies