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ROLE-BASED DEVELOPMENT • COMPETENCE • ASSURANCE

National Attendance Professional Academy™

Choose your role. Benchmark yourself. Follow a personalised learning pathway. Practise through scenarios. Complete the final competence assessment. Earn a National Attendance Portal professional-development certificate and digital badge.

01 • Role pathway

Who are you developing as an attendance professional?

Select the role closest to your current responsibility. You can return later and explore another pathway.

Choose a role above

Your diagnostic and standards library will adapt to the selected role.

02 • Professional diagnostic

Benchmark confidence before choosing development.

Rate current confidence against the role's attendance responsibilities. The Academy uses the lowest domains to prioritise your pathway.

03 • Personalised learning

Your Academy pathway.

Priority modules are driven by your diagnostic; all modules remain available. Each has concise learning, a reflection task and a knowledge check.

04 • Scenario lab

Can you apply the principles when the case is messy?

Role-specific scenarios test judgement, proportionality, curiosity, collaboration and the difference between activity and impact.

Scenario score

Complete the scenarios above.

05 • Final competence assessment

Professional judgement, not simple recall.

Ten questions combine statutory/role knowledge, barrier-first reasoning, data interpretation, safeguarding boundaries, family partnership and impact.

Certificate threshold: 80%. This assessment evidences Academy learning; it does not replace any statutory, regulated or employer-required assessment.
06 • Recognition

Certificate & digital badge.

Unlocked after the final assessment threshold is met.

Leader assurance

Workforce development dashboard.

Track role coverage, completion, assessment outcomes and remaining development needs locally in this browser.

Add / update staff member

StaffRoleStatusScoreDevelopment needsDate
Academy standards & benchmarking library

Benchmark the role against the real framework.

Formal professional standards are labelled as such. Other roles benchmark against current statutory guidance, national occupational standards or authoritative national delivery frameworks.

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