CPD & Insights
Your professional learning and intelligence centre for attendance. Develop your practice, use attendance data more intelligently, explore research and policy, discover practical ideas and keep up with the wider attendance conversation.
2 hours of ready-to-use attendance CPD
Need staff training but don't have hours to create it? Use these three ready-to-deliver National Attendance Portal sessions for senior leaders, teachers, tutors, Heads of Year, pastoral teams and attendance personnel.
Where do you want to go next?
Go directly to the resource you need. These links take you to the relevant National Attendance Portal page rather than sending you back through another hub.
Professional Development & CPD
Training and professional development for senior leaders, attendance teams, teachers, tutors and wider professionals.
Open CPD & Training Resources →National Attendance Benchmarking
Put your attendance information into context and use benchmarking to strengthen leadership conversations and improvement planning.
Open Attendance Benchmarking →Ideas & Insights
Fresh perspectives, practical thinking and ideas designed to challenge assumptions and strengthen attendance practice.
Open Ideas & Insights →Attendance Practice Across the UK
Explore approaches, guidance and learning from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Explore UK Attendance Practice →Attendance & Attainment
Explore the evidence around the relationship between attendance, absence, attainment and educational outcomes.
Explore Attendance & Attainment →Attendance in the UK Media
Keep up with attendance stories, national debate and the wider public conversation about absence, belonging and education.
Open Attendance in the UK Media →Key Research & Evidence
Access clear summaries of important attendance research and consider what the evidence means for school practice.
Explore Research & Evidence →Policy & Guidance — England
Go directly to the Portal's England policy and guidance area, including key national attendance expectations.
Open Policy & Guidance →What Actually Works?
Explore the Education Endowment Foundation attendance evidence and the practical questions it raises for schools.
Explore the EEF Evidence →Candid Corner
Thoughtful challenge, professional debate, lived experience and different perspectives on attendance.
Enter Candid Corner →Primary & Secondary School Hub
Move from insight into action with practical resources, attendance tools, casework support and school improvement materials.
Open the School Hub →National Attendance Portal
Return to the main Portal and explore the full range of support for schools, trusts, professionals, families and young people.
Go to the National Attendance Portal →Learn something. Test it. Apply it.
CPD is useful when it changes what happens next. Use this hub to develop knowledge, interrogate the evidence, explore new thinking and then take practical action in your own setting.