Looking to recruit a new attendance champion or attendance co-ordinator? If you’re wondering what tasks to set and what interview questions to ask a prospective attendance lead to recruit the right candidate for your school, this Attendance Champion Interview Pack can support you throughout the entire process, from advertising to employment. 

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you're an attendance lead, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for attendance leads, this focused preparation pack translates the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit into practical guidance about your role during inspection. You'll understand when and how you'll engage with inspectors, what questions they're likely to explore and how to demonstrate the excellent attendance work you're already doing to ensure all pupils attend school regularly and punctually, as attendance is the foundation for learning and achievement.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance Lead Inspection Role Guidance – clear explanation of when you'll be involved during inspection, what happens during focused leadership meetings, case sampling discussions and document reviews, and what inspectors want to understand from you

☑️ Example Ofsted Attendance Lead Questions – realistic questions you might be asked during inspection conversations, helping you practise articulating your approach and identify any areas to strengthen

☑️ Further supporting documents – including a leader action checklist to build your inspection knowledge, an inspection readiness tool to evaluate your current practice against toolkit statements, and editable grade descriptor grids highlighting attendance and behaviour across the framework

This Ofsted attendance lead resources pack helps to build your confidence to articulate your work clearly and supports you to prepare effectively without creating unnecessary workload. All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and use them as part of your ongoing attendance leadership, not just for inspection preparation.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

When attendance issues or children missing education raise safeguarding concerns, DSLs need clear training resources to help staff recognise risks and respond appropriately. This set provides safeguarding training materials focused on CME, attendance and elective home education, helping staff understand how absence from education links to wider safeguarding responsibilities.

☑️ 2 safeguarding scenarios exploring CME and EHE concerns
☑️ 2 one‑minute guides to share in staff briefings or as e‑bulletins
☑️ 1 safeguarding quiz to check staff understanding of safeguarding beyond the family setting

Unlike a single‑session training bundle, this themed safeguarding set gives you a flexible mix of scenarios, quick reference guides and a realistic quiz you can use across multiple staff meetings or CPD sessions. It’s designed to help safeguarding leads deliver staff training on attendance and CME in both primary and secondary contexts.

Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and attendance leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting attendance data and strategy to your governing board, without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 9-page editable Word document covering:

• whole-school attendance data
• attendance by pupil group and year group
• year-on-year comparisons
• session-by-session analysis
• CME and alternative provision tracking
• attendance improvement strategies
• multi-agency partnership work
• known barriers to attendance
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for governor questions and challenges

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for headteachers, deputy heads, attendance leads and attendance champions preparing termly or annual reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Gathering meaningful feedback on attendance and behaviour from pupils, parents and staff takes more than sending out a form. It requires careful planning, well-designed questions, a structured approach to analysis and a clear process for sharing findings back with your school community.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about attendance and behaviour, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use survey templates covering pupils (two versions for different age/ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, so you can adapt or extend the surveys to suit your school's context

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.