Guidance

Access your school attendance data

Guidance on how to access your school attendance data through the Monitor your school attendance tool.

Applies to England

Monitor your school attendance

Schools, their trust and local authority can access the Monitor your school attendance tool. This is available on the service.

How to get access

To access your school attendance data:

  1. Log in to .
  2. Go to 鈥榮ervices鈥� and 鈥榓dd services to my account鈥�.
  3. Select your organisation.
  4. Request access to 鈥�VYED鈥� then the sub-service 鈥楳onitor your school attendance.

This sends an email request to your school鈥檚 approver. You should receive an email within 5 days from [email protected] confirming approval.

If there are no approvers for your organisation, your request will be sent to the DfE Sign-in team to be approved.

Problems getting access

To resolve problems getting access in your DfE sign-in account, you can:

  • check the status of a request
  • find your organisation鈥檚 approver

If you are an approver

To access the tool for yourself, log in to DfE Sign-in and add the service 鈥榲iew your education data鈥� and 鈥楳onitor your school attendance鈥�.

To give someone else access, select the approve button in the email request from [email protected] and follow the steps.

Get help

The Monitor your school attendance: user guide has information on the terms we use in the tool and how we calculate your results.

You can through the Customer Help Portal if you are struggling to access the Monitor your school attendance tool.

Updates to this page

Published 7 June 2023
Last updated 14 November 2024 show all updates
  1. Updated the page to clarify how to access the 'View your education data' service.

  2. Added a link to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' and updated access instructions.

  3. Added links to the 'View your education data', 'How to-register for an IDAMS account' and 'DfE Sign-in' pages.

  4. First published.

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