In this webinar, we discuss how inspectors look at attendance during an EIF school inspection. We give an overview of the findings from our research into how schools secure good attendance and some of the things that schools do when they tackle persistent absence well.

Our panel:
Lee Owston HMI, Acting National Director Education
Jonathan Keay, Acting Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education
Sue Morris-King, Senior HMI
Claire Jones HMI, Specialist Adviser, Policy, Quality and Training

Content:
0:00 Introduction
3:44 Overview
4:38 Findings from our research
9:08 Securing good attendance
19:57 Tackling persistent absence
24:02 Weaknesses in some schools’ practice
28:35 How we inspect attendance
28:46 Attendance and the pandemic
30:22 Inspecting attendance
33:36 Pupils with specific needs and/or SEND
35:32 Part-time timetables
37:40 Pupil referral units and AP
40:38 Behaviour and attitudes - grade descriptors
42:39 Questions
43:20 Q1: Ofsted's role in relation to coding, fines and legislation
44:23 Q2: Attendance of children of non-statutory school age
46:11 Q3: Talking to pupils about attendance on inspection

Questions in full:
Q1: What is Ofsted’s role in relation to coding, fines and legislation?
Q2: How do we consider attendance of children who are of non-statutory and post-statutory school age?
Q3: Does Ofsted talk to pupils about attendance on inspection?

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