Monitoring Attendance

Part of the process to ensure good attendance at school is to monitor patterns. Coten End Primary School has an Attendance Support Team who meet regularly to consider all children’s attendance and highlight any concerns in absence. As parents and carers, you may find that you are contacted by a member of the team to discuss your child’s attendance and their concerns. Monitoring attendance is not about blaming, but working together to find a solution to overcome any barriers to attendance. This could include offering support to the child to family to support with improving the attendance.

As a team we must identify whether barriers to attendance are from the child or parent/carer. We seek support from Warwickshire Attendance Service, and review our data each term. Our Attendance Advisor will support us in making decisions about absence and whether this would mean involvement from the Local Authority, with the potential to progress families through to targeted support and/or prosecution.

Recording Attendance

Coten End Primary School has a legal obligation to ensure that all children on roll must receive a 'mark' for attendance or non-attendance. Within the DfE statutory guidance for attendance (WTTISA), there are multi registration marks that must be followed. This means that when a child is off school, we have a legal obligation to ensure that the correct code is used to reflect the absence.