You're expected to designate a senior attendance champion
This is explained in paragraph 25 of the DfE’s statutory guidance on working together to improve school attendance.
Attendance is everyone’s responsibility. This is explained in paragraph 15 of the attendance guidance. However, the guidance also explains that improving attendance is a school leadership issue.
Choose a member of your senior leadership team (SLT) to have overall responsibility for championing and improving attendance, and include their name and contact details in your attendance policy.
See paragraph 26 of the attendance guidance.
Understand their responsibilities
Leading, championing and improving attendance across the school Setting a clear vision for improving and maintaining good attendance Evaluating and monitoring expectations and processes Having a strong grasp of absence data and oversight of absence data analysis Regularly monitoring and evaluating progress in attendance Establishing and maintaining effective systems for tackling absence, and making sure they
