Attendance expectations became more formalised in statutory guidance.
Recent attendance guidance in England set out expectations for schools, local authorities and families around improving school attendance.
This matters because attendance pressure sits directly inside the SEND crisis. Some children are absent because education is inaccessible, unsafe, overwhelming or unsupported.
Awareverse asks the missing question: is this an attendance problem, or an access problem showing up as absence?
A common mistake is treating attendance as a number before understanding the child's reality.
Who had power here, who was left outside, and what would have changed if the human being was seen first?
These deep dives open out from this part of the timeline.