Improving attendance is one of the biggest challenges facing schools and trusts today.

The Attendance Challenge: How Feedback and Data Can Help Turn Things Around

Persistent absence impacts pupil achievement, wellbeing, and the overall effectiveness of your school community.
This report explores how combining attendance data with stakeholder feedback from pupils, parents, and staff can uncover the root causes of absence and help drive more targeted, impactful action.

The Attendance Challenge: How Feedback and Data Can Help Turn Things Around

Improving attendance is one of the biggest challenges facing schools and trusts today.

Persistent absence impacts pupil achievement, wellbeing, and the overall effectiveness of your school community.

This report explores how combining attendance data with stakeholder feedback from pupils, parents, and staff can uncover the root causes of absence and help drive more targeted, impactful action.

Designed for trust and school leaders, it offers:

A breakdown of the key drivers of poor attendance
A summary of statutory responsibilities around attendance
Practical strategies to improve attendance outcomes
Insight into how stakeholder voice can reveal hidden barriers
Ways to use data and feedback to inform smarter interventions

It also highlights how tools like Welbee Edu Intelligence and Welbee Insights can support a more informed and responsive approach.

Turn insight into action. Understand what’s really driving absence—and what you can do to make a difference.

Collect feedback to help improve with Welbee Insights

Collect feedback from staff, students and parents, separately or in the same survey

Use our question bank of over 300 question, our expert survey templates, or start from scratch.

Run unlimited surveys, choosing from one-off surveys or repeating pulse surveys.

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Breaking down data silos, giving you real intelligence that drives the changes you want

Your data, together

See the full picture by unifying the data you already own with your stakeholder feedback. For trusts bring data from all schools into one dashboard, alongside one for every school.

Powerful Analytics

Our cutting-edge analytics helps you to see key insights, identify hidden trends, and ask questions of your data — with the help of 12 ethical and secure AI agents that cannot access your raw data.

Data into Action

Our sector-leading expert recommendations help you to quickly move to action and make the changes you want. Backed by high-quality sources, and grounded in your data.

Improving attendance is one of the biggest challenges facing schools and trusts today.

The Attendance Challenge: How Feedback and Data Can Help Turn Things Around