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Strategic attendance improvement
Build a clear attendance strategy, improvement roadmap and accountability framework around your organisation’s priorities.
Start a conversation →Not consultancy done to you. Partnership built with you.
We start with your context, your people and your priorities. The aim is to build internal capacity, sharpen decision-making and create sustainable improvement — not dependency. Support can be light-touch and advisory, or become a deeper strategic relationship across a term, academic year or defined improvement programme.
How we can work strategically
Choose the support your organisation actually needs.
A strategic partnership can combine several strands of work or focus tightly on one priority. Every engagement should lead to clearer decisions, stronger practice and evidence of impact.
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Independent challenge & review
Use external evaluation to test the strength of leadership, culture, systems, interventions and impact.
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Data to intelligence
Move beyond headline percentages with sharper analysis of persistent absence, severe absence, vulnerable groups, trends and variation.
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Leadership development
Strengthen confidence and capacity through coaching, CPD, leadership briefings and development for attendance champions and senior teams.
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Trust-wide consistency
Create common expectations, measures and improvement approaches across MATs, federations, groups of schools or wider partnerships.
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Belonging, SEND & inclusion
Connect attendance strategy to the reasons children may struggle to attend, including belonging, health, SEND, family circumstances and inclusion.
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Research & innovation
Work with us on evidence, surveys, pilots, resources, professional learning, events and collaborative attendance projects.
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Governance & assurance
Support trustees, governors and executive leaders to ask better questions, understand risk and demonstrate strategic oversight.
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Bespoke partnership
If the challenge does not fit a standard package, we can shape a proportionate partnership around your context, ambition and capacity.
Start a conversation →Who we can work with
From individual schools to system partners.
Partnership is suitable wherever there is a serious commitment to improving attendance, participation, belonging and outcomes.
Primary schoolsSecondary schoolsSpecial schoolsAlternative provisionFE & post-16Multi-academy trustsLocal authoritiesHealth & public-health partnersCharities & professional bodies
What partnership should achieve
Clarity. Capacity. Accountability. Impact.
A good strategic partnership should leave your organisation stronger: leaders clearer about priorities, staff better equipped, data used more intelligently, interventions evaluated more rigorously and governance better able to understand progress and risk.
Explore professional services →A simple process
From first conversation to meaningful action.
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Tell us what mattersShare the challenge, ambition, context or opportunity.2
We listen and diagnoseWe explore the evidence, people, systems and barriers around it.3
We shape the partnershipYou receive a clear, proportionate approach rather than an off-the-shelf package.4
We focus on impactActions, review points and evidence of progress are built into the work.Start the conversation
Could the National Attendance Portal become part of your improvement team?
You do not need to arrive with a finished brief. Tell us what you are trying to improve, what is getting in the way and what success would look like. We can then explore whether a strategic partnership is the right fit.