Attendance is bigger than school.
Poor attendance can reflect health, housing, SEND, safeguarding, anxiety, family pressure, transport, poverty, disengagement and barriers across several services. This hub helps professionals see the whole child and work together more effectively.
What is your role in the attendance picture?
Different services see different parts of a child's life. The Portal should help those perspectives connect rather than operate in isolation.
Health, CAMHS & School Nursing
Explore the relationship between health, anxiety, medical absence, reasonable support and returning to education.
Explore health resourcesLocal Authority Attendance Teams
Support strategic oversight, statutory responsibilities, school improvement, case escalation and place-based attendance work.
Explore LA resourcesSocial Care & Family Support
Connect attendance with safeguarding, family context, looked-after children, multi-agency plans and the child's lived experience.
Explore social care resourcesPublic Health
Treat attendance as a population and wellbeing issue: understand patterns, inequalities, prevention and system-level responses.
Explore public health resourcesPolice & Safeguarding Partners
Understand where attendance patterns may intersect with safeguarding, exploitation, vulnerability and wider contextual risk.
Explore safeguarding resourcesVoluntary, Community & Other Services
Help organisations outside education understand attendance barriers and contribute effectively to coordinated support.
Explore wider professional resourcesTools for systems, places and partnerships.
The strongest wider-professional offer should help services identify patterns and coordinate responses, not simply reproduce school attendance tools.
Place-Based Attendance Planning
Bring schools, services and community context together around local attendance barriers and priorities.
Public Health Lens
Explore attendance as an outcome shaped by health, inequality, prevention and wider determinants.
Multi-Agency Case Planning
Clarify barriers, responsibilities, interventions and review points where several services are involved.
Reintegration & Return
Coordinate education, health and family support when a child returns after significant absence or illness.
One child. Several services. One coherent plan.
Attendance can deteriorate when every service sees a different piece of the problem. These routes focus attention on shared understanding and coordinated action.
Build the shared picture
Combine child voice, family context, education information, health factors, SEND and professional knowledge.
Open Case Conference OrganiserAgree ownership
Make clear who is doing what, by when, and what evidence will show whether support is working.
Explore casework toolsPrevent case drift
Review whether activity is actually reducing barriers rather than allowing meetings and referrals to become the intervention.
Find review toolsLook beyond absence.
A percentage tells professionals how much education has been missed. It does not, by itself, explain why. Wider services can add crucial context that schools may not hold alone.
Questions worth asking together
What is the child experiencing? What barriers sit outside school? What is already helping? Which service is best placed to act? What will change for the child if the plan works?
Free insight. Deeper implementation support when needed.
Keep essential wider-professional information accessible, while membership provides deeper tools, editable plans, specialist resources and implementation support.