DfE Attendance Guidance

The guidance for Gloucestershire schools includes information on statutory and recommended practice for schools, school interventions to improve attendance and legal processes in relation to attendance of concern.

This considers changes in procedures for initiating legal procedures and replaces any guidance previously issued.

The DfE have published ’Guidance for local authorities and schools dealing with adults who have legal rights and responsibilities for children at their school’. The guidance outlines the responsibilities of the school and local authority when working with families when the parents have separated.

The new Department for Education guidance 'Working together to improve school attendance Statutory guidance for maintained schools, academies, independent schools and local authorities' applies from: 19 August 2024.