Attendance and Behaviour Audit Pack (2025)

This practical toolkit gives you everything needed to review, strengthen and plan improvements to attendance and behaviour in your school. Designed for busy leaders, it brings together structured audit prompts, planning tools and reflection resources in one place — all fully aligned with Ofsted's 2025 School Inspection Toolkit.

Here's what's included:

☑️ A 52-page Attendance and Behaviour Audit

Explore eight key areas of attendance and behaviour with clear, structured prompts to guide reflection, discussion and evidence gathering. Sections cover:

• Strategic leadership of attendance and behaviour
• Attendance systems, monitoring and support
• Behaviour culture, routines and expectations
• Tackling bullying and ensuring safety
• Behaviour escalation, staff support and family partnerships
• Attitudes to learning
• Inclusive approaches to attendance and behaviour
• Evaluating impact and continuous improvement

Use this editable tool to build an honest, evidence-based picture of attendance and behaviour in your setting and identify clear next steps.

☑️ 22-page PDF guidance document

Practical guidance on attendance and behaviour expectations, including how to approach audits effectively, involve others and turn findings into action.

☑️ Action plan template

Capture your priorities and plan strategic actions to improve attendance systems and behaviour culture across your school.

☑️ Attendance and behaviour evidence checklist

Quickly check which key attendance and behaviour-related policies, records and evidence you have in place to support inspection readiness and strong day-to-day practice.

☑️ Attendance and behaviour question bank

Gather meaningful insights from staff, pupils, parents and governors with editable questions designed to deepen understanding of attendance systems and behaviour and attitudes provision.

☑️ One-page summary template for attendance and behaviour

Summarise your key findings clearly for sharing with SLT, governors or trust leaders.

All templates are editable Word documents (except the PDF guide), so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and priorities.

This audit pack is for anyone who plays a role in shaping attendance and behaviour across their school. Whether you lead on attendance strategy, oversee pastoral care, or support staff with behaviour management, these tools will help you reflect on what's working well and where improvements are needed.

You might be:

• A headteacher reviewing whole-school attendance systems and behaviour culture
• A deputy or assistant head with responsibility for attendance and behaviour
• An attendance or behaviour lead seeking to strengthen systems and staff confidence
• A senior leader preparing for Ofsted and wanting clear evidence of attendance tracking, behaviour policy implementation and impact
• A governor or trust leader exploring how attendance expectations and behaviour approaches are embedded across settings

This pack is particularly valuable if you're conducting a behaviour and attitudes review, evaluating attendance strategies, or preparing for inspection under the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit.

Whatever your role, this audit pack will support honest reflection, structured evaluation and practical planning to help all pupils attend regularly, feel safe, and be ready to learn.

This comprehensive audit pack helps busy school leaders tackle the key attendance and behaviour challenges when evaluating and improving their school's provision. Whether you're conducting a formal review in preparation for inspection, planning development priorities or strengthening your self-evaluation, this pack provides the support you need.

"How can I audit our attendance and behaviour provision effectively across all key areas?"
The 52-page audit framework guides you through systematic evaluation across eight comprehensive themes, with structured questions and evidence prompts aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit to ensure thorough coverage of behaviour and attitudes expectations.

"What should I be looking for when reviewing our attendance systems and support?"
Detailed audit questions help you evaluate the effectiveness of your attendance monitoring, intervention strategies, persistent absence support and partnership working with families and external agencies.

"How do I know if our behaviour culture and routines are embedded consistently?"
Specific audit sections focus on behaviour expectations, staff consistency, classroom routines and the day-to-day reality of behaviour management, helping you identify what's working and where practice varies.

"What evidence demonstrates effective strategic leadership of attendance and behaviour?"
The audit framework helps you gather and evaluate evidence of leadership impact, from strategic oversight to policy implementation, staff training and the use of data to drive improvement.

"How can I review our approach to tackling bullying and ensuring pupil safety?"
Dedicated audit questions address anti-bullying systems, safeguarding culture, pupil voice on safety, and how effectively concerns are identified, recorded and responded to.

"How do we support pupils with SEND or other barriers to good attendance and behaviour?"
Audit sections on inclusive approaches help you evaluate whether your attendance and behaviour systems are adapted appropriately for vulnerable pupils and those who need additional support.

"How can I involve different stakeholders in evaluating our attendance and behaviour work?"
Voice-gathering tools and question banks help you systematically collect feedback from pupils, staff, parents and governors to strengthen your evaluation and understand different perspectives on behaviour and attitudes.

"What's the best way to identify priorities for improving attendance and behaviour provision?"
The action planning template helps you synthesise audit findings into clear, manageable next steps with realistic timescales and accountability measures.

"How do I present audit findings to senior leaders and governors?"
The one-page summary template helps you communicate key strengths, areas for development and recommended actions clearly and concisely, supporting strategic decision-making around behaviour and attitudes.

This pack gives you everything needed to conduct thorough, evidence-based evaluation of attendance and behaviour provision so you can identify what's working well, address any gaps with confidence, and demonstrate your school's commitment to supporting every pupil to attend regularly, behave well and develop positive attitudes to learning.

If you’re reviewing attendance, behaviour culture, pupil conduct or staff approaches to behaviour management, these related resources can help you build confidence, strengthen consistency and support wider school improvement.

Everything You Need to Start Leading Behaviour

Practical tools and templates for those who are new to leading behaviour - kickstart your role, save time and build confidence.

Attendance Strategy, Monitoring and Training Pack

A full pack exploring attendance, including in-depth strategy development through auditing, whole-school approaches and pupil-focused templates to support good attendance.

Personal Development and Well-being Audit

Evaluate how your school supports pupil personal development and well-being, and how this links with behaviour and attitudes across the curriculum and wider school life.

Have a look at what's in the pack here: Behaviour and Attitudes Audit Pack