Share your daily school attendance data
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The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE). Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Who this guidance is for
- Statutory requirement
- The importance of sharing daily attendance data
- Schools required to share attendance data
- Data items included in the regulations
- Requirements for data sharing
- Schools with a MIS supplier
- Continuous data sharing
- Compatible MIS suppliers
- Schools without a compatible MIS
- Resubmission of attendance data
- Data protection and data sharing
- Collecting pupil-level data
- Collecting school-level data
- Sharing data with Ofsted
- Data Ofsted receives
Source and licence
Department for Education
AttributionDepartment for Education, ‘Share your daily school attendance data’ (updated 19 December 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026