What it does to your week

The children who need you, before it is too late

A watch list of everyone drifting below your own target, who is recovering and who is not, and a forecast of who falls into persistent absence at the next export if nothing changes. The point of an attendance system is the conversation you have next week, not the number you had last term.

The penalty notice threshold, tracked for you

Ten sessions of unauthorised absence in a rolling ten-week window is the national framework, and working that out by hand across a whole school is nobody's idea of a Tuesday. It is counted for every pupil, with the exact ten weeks shown so the figure can be defended.

Patterns you would not find by looking

Which weekday the absence really falls on, mornings against afternoons, and which groups sit above the school's own rate. A day standing clear of the others across the whole school is usually timetable or transport rather than families, and that is a different conversation entirely.

Ready for inspection, in their language

Ofsted's 2026 framework asks whether attendance is broadly in line with national averages or improving over time. You get both, against the published DfE figures for England and for your own local authority, plus the likely questions with your own numbers already in the answers.

Reports that go straight into the meeting

A governor and trustee summary with no pupil named in it, an inspection report, a confidential welfare list for the Education Welfare Officer, dashboards for teachers, and a warm one-page report for a family. Laid out ready to print or to discuss at your parents' meetings.

Figures you can defend

Everything follows the DfE method: session weighted, persistent absence at or below 90%, severe at or below 50%, all decided on session counts rather than rounded percentages. Every report states how its figures were reached, because the method is the first thing challenged.

Four questions, already answered

How many pupils have moved into persistent absence, and how many out?

The figure can hold steady while children cross the line in both directions: two completely different terms described by one number.

11 May 8 June

Moved in7

Moved out3

In it at both dates31

Persistently absent: 34 then, 39 now

A child who joined or left between the two dates is in neither figure, because they were not here to move.

What would our attendance be if every late arrival had been on time?

Every session marked U is a morning a child was in school and counted absent. The one figure entirely inside a school's own gift.

90%100%

94.18%

now

94.86%

if nobody arrived late

0.68 points, from 214 sessions across 33 pupils

These children are already in the building. The gain is in the minutes before the register closes, not in a conversation about absence.

Is our absence concentrated in a few children or spread across the school?

Two schools on the same figure can need opposite work: casework with a dozen families, or a conversation about term-time holidays.

Share of pupils11.59%

Share of the absence they hold50%

Half the absence sits with 24 of 207 pupils

The 24 are a caseload. The other 183 are a whole-school message, and work aimed at the wrong one of those two moves nothing.

Which families are approaching the penalty notice threshold, and when?

Ten sessions of unauthorised absence in a rolling ten-week window, recounted at every import. No school can do the rolling part by hand.

12345678910U

Ayesha212121211

Tomas12112119

Marek1214

Bea112

Ayesha has crossed ten. The threshold is counted again every time an export lands.

Every name and figure above is invented. There are no screenshots of anyone's children here, on purpose.

How it starts

Export from your MIS

The reports you already run. Every MIS in common use produces them, and there are templates if you need to build one.

Drop the file in

Columns are matched for you, whatever they happen to be called this year. Import weekly or each half term, in any order: the system works out the sequence.

The whole picture appears

Every tab, every report and every comparison, filled in. No setup project, no consultancy, no training week.

Children's data, handled properly

This is a record of children, so the safeguards are part of the product rather than a page in a policy. Your administrator can see all of it written out, role by role, inside the system.

Governors never see a pupil's name

Not on a screen, not in a report. Enforced in the database itself, so it holds even for somebody bypassing the pages entirely.

Teachers see their own classes

You choose whether a teacher sees the whole school or only their own classes or years.

You can see who looked at what

Every import, every settings change, and every report of pupil names that leaves the system, including anything iCT4 does. Your administrator can read the log.

Your school's own sign-in

Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, whichever your school runs. No new passwords for anyone to write on a sticky note, and your school's own sign-in policies and multi-factor authentication apply, because it is your data and account.

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Ready to look at your own figures?

Sign in with your school account, Microsoft or Google. If your school is already set up, you are in. If not, you can ask for access on the next screen and iCT4 will get you started.

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