When beginning a dialogue to increase attendance, it’s important that emotive issues like health or finances are dealt with sensitively. The focus should always be on the parents, pupils and the school working together to find a solution. To assist in this area, schools should understand the new statutory guidance, Working together to improve school attendance, which will be in place from 19 August this year. For example, The School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations set to come into effect this August will require schools to keep electronic admission of attendance. These regulations specify mandatory attendance codes to be utilised by schools to increase legal accountability and prevent cases that require further attention from being missed.