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 View your education data (VYED) service.

How to get access

To access your school attendance data:

  1. Log in to DfE Sign-in.
  2. Go to ‘services’ and ‘add services to my account’.
  3. Select your organisation.
  4. Request access to ‘VYED’ then the sub-service ‘Monitor your school attendance.

This sends an email request to your school’s approver. You should receive an email within 5 days from dfe.signin@education.gov.uk 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’s approver

If you are an approver

To access the tool for yourself, log in to DfE Sign-in and add the service ‘view your education data’ and ‘Monitor your school attendance’.

To give someone else access, select the approve button in the email request from dfe.signin@education.gov.uk 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 raise an enquiry 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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