Attendance governance and monitoring
No one school, local authority service area or voluntary group will achieve the ultimate goal of improving the overall attendance of children in Lincolnshire. However together, through focussed, targeted implementation of approaches and the monitoring of these, we can achieve the goal of improved attendance and ultimately better outcomes for children.
Monitoring roles and responsibilities are:
Schools:
- daily accurate attendance data collection, regular data analysis, sharing of data via DfE data collection and at the Local Authority targeted school meetings
- regular attendance focussed meetings held by school attendance team
- information sharing with Governing Body and Trusts
Local authority:
- use attendance data from all schools in the area to identify the pupil cohorts, schools, and neighbourhoods or towns on which to focus efforts.
- benchmarking against neighbouring local authorities (both geographic and statistical) and regional and national averages to identify trends.
- use attendance data analysis to set a vision for improving attendance with tangible short and longer term aims for particular cohorts of pupils
- virtual school – regularly monitor the attendance of children with a social worker
- attendance focussed group to monitor progress of strategy and analyse data
- report on attendance of specific groups to Senior Leadership Team