regulation 9(1)(f) of the School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024. Informing the local authority: regulation 13(4)-(6) of the same Regulations. 8 and a person with control of the pupil’s attendance16 have agreed that the pupil will attend the school. If no date has been agreed or notified, the pupil’s name must be entered on the first day they attend the school. Names must be entered from the beginning of the first session.17 If a pupil fails to attend on the agreed date, the school should undertake reasonable enquiries to establish the child’s whereabouts and consider notifying the local authority at the earliest opportunity. Schools must monitor pupils’ attendance through their daily attendance register. Schools should agree with their local authority the intervals at which they will make a return to the local authority (an ‘attendance return18’) with the details of any pupil of compulsory school age who has failed to attend regularly (excluding where they were out of school and attending an approved educational activity covered by codes D, K, V or B), or has been absent for a continuous period of ten school days where their absence had been recorded with one or more of the codes statistically classified as unauthorised (G, N, O and/or U). . Schools should monitor attendance closely and address poor or irregular attendance. It is important that pupils’ poor attendance is referred to the local authority. Where a pupil has not returned to school for ten consecutive school days after a leave of absence 15 or is absent from school for reasons statistically recorded as unauthorised absence for twenty consecutive school days16, the pupil’s name can be removed from the admission register when the school and the local authority have failed, after joi