Pupil attendance in schools data from national and local authorities is published on Explore Education Statistics every 2 weeks. If you are a school

If someone waits in the lobby and doesn't get admitted to the meeting, they won't be included in the report. The main thing is that they are ‘digital’ so they can be accessed from any device, anytime and from anywhere. Well, at least they should be all these things, but not all attendance register apps or register software is created equal (more on that in a minute). When a participant is on hold in a meeting, their info is still included for this period of time in the attendance report. In meetings with more than 120 participants, the attendance report that's available during the meeting will only include a partial list of attendees. The post-meeting report will contain the full list. Note: For recurring meetings, you'll receive a unique attendance report after each occurrence. You will not see the tile in meeting chat for meetings with less than 2 attendees. You can still see these reports by going to the invite "attendance" tab. Scheduled channel meetingsMany of the problems associated with normal attendance registers simply go away when you use an attendance register online. Whether it’s an attendance register app, attendance register software or an online attendance register, they all offer the same functionality of more traditional register formats and a lot more besides. Find out how to request access from your approver. You’ll need your DfE credentials to access the data. If you are an approver

To assign yourself the role, select assign new permission and then ‘ VYED – school attendance data’. Get help

To access the reports for yourself, log in to DfE Sign-in and add the service ‘view your education data’ and ‘school attendance data’. Find out how to request access from a super user, or give access to someone else. Problems getting access as a local authority user