A practical attendance handbook for tutors, heads of year, attendance leads and senior leaders, written against the DfE’s Working Together to Improve School Attendance and quoted directly.

Follows the five stages the guidance sets out — Expect, Monitor, Listen, Facilitate, Formalise, Enforce — and shows what each one actually looks like in a school week. Persistent absence begins at 10 per cent and severe absence at 50 per cent; this book is about the days before either threshold is reached.

WHAT’S INSIDE
• 61 pages, professionally typeset for print
• The five stages, drawn in the order the guidance sets them out
• A teacher’s attendance page for tutors and classroom staff
• Emotionally based school avoidance: what it is and what not to do
• The first day of absence, and why it decides the term
• A weekly attendance triage, a barriers conversation script and a reintegration plan
• Penalty notices and legal intervention, explained plainly
• An SLT self-audit checklist

Distinguishes statutory duty from school policy choice throughout, so you know what you must do and what you get to decide.

Written for the conversation with a family, not the spreadsheet.