25 resources worth knowing about.
The Portal is deliberately extensive. NAP Essentials makes it feel simple: a carefully selected starting collection of practical attendance resources from the open directory.
You do not need to explore everything.
Start here. These resources provide a cross-section of practical support for identifying barriers, working with families, supporting vulnerable learners, strengthening belonging, improving casework and developing leadership. When you need something more specific, move into the full open directory.
Vulnerable Learners Lab™
Map school, family, health, SEND and contextual barriers into an actionable support response.
Open resourceVulnerable Pupil Attendance Checker
Check whether vulnerable pupils and groups are receiving timely, coordinated and inclusive support.
Open resourceAttendance Case Conference Generator
Structured case review covering chronology, voice, needs, interventions, agencies, actions and escalation.
Open resourceSchool EBSA Action Plan
Build a practical school plan around emotionally based school avoidance, confidence, adjustments and phased support.
Open resourceMy Come Back Plan to School
Prioritise, reconnect and build a sensible catch-up plan after absence.
Open resourcePrepare for an Attendance Meeting
Organise concerns, questions and practical requests before meeting school.
Open resourceProgression Entitlement Plan
Connect attendance with belonging, curriculum access, achievement, progression and future destination.
Open resourceSchool Inclusion Statement Builder
Build a school inclusion statement linking attendance, belonging, SEND, disadvantage and inclusive practice.
Open resourceLeadership Challenge Pack™
Generate questions governors, trustees and senior leaders should ask when attendance strategy is underperforming.
Open resourceBarrier Escalation Mapper™
Clarify ownership across school, family, health, SEND, social care, youth services and local authority partners.
Open resourcePA Prevention Pipeline
Identify pupils at risk of persistent absence early enough to intervene.
Open resourceCould This Be EBSA?
Explore whether emotional distress or anxiety may be contributing to attendance difficulty.
Open resourceY6→Y7→Y8 Observatory™
Identify transition risk early and create attendance-protection actions around belonging and support.
Open resourceAttendance Letter Quality Checker
Review attendance letters for clarity, tone, purpose and constructive family engagement.
Open resourceBelonging Scanner™
Test whether relationships, safety, curriculum or belonging may be contributing to attendance risk.
Open resourceAttendance Champion Impact Report
Create a cumulative professional report for SLT or CEO-level assurance.
Open resourceStudent Comeback Plan
Support a pupil returning after absence with a manageable reintegration and catch-up plan.
Open resourceRISE Alignment Review™
Score current practice against the South West attendance delivery routes and identify next moves.
Open resourceAttendance Rescue Room™
Diagnose flatlining attendance and generate a focused 30/60/90-day recovery plan.
Open resourceABIE Mission Control™
Translate current attendance and ABIE into an improvement trajectory and review response.
Open resourceWhat Works Exchange™
Capture effective practice — and approaches that did not work — so implementation learning is retained.
Open resourceData Intelligence Studio™
Triangulate similar-school position, transition, ABIE and subgroup gaps into one leadership interpretation.
Open resourceRISE Support Route Finder™
Frame whether the next step is self-improvement, hub support, enhanced support or multi-agency escalation.
Open resourceDiscovery→Delivery Canvas™
Turn a discovery visit or shared-practice idea into disciplined implementation with measures and ownership.
Open resourceRegional RISE Action Planner
Build a concise local response from the nine English RISE regional plans and save or print the summary.
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