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National Attendance Portal • England Inclusion Strategy Builder

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Create a clear, evidence-informed 2026/27 Inclusion Strategy Statement that connects inclusion, attendance, belonging, SEND, disadvantage, teaching, family partnership and measurable impact.

England only 2026/27 Adopts & operationalises DfE guidance 31 December 2026 deadline No pupil-identifiable data
DfE alignment statement. This independent National Attendance Portal tool adopts and operationalises the Department for Education's Inclusive Mainstream Fund: support for school leaders, the 2026/27 IMF conditions of grant and the DfE inclusion strategy template. It is designed to help schools turn those requirements into a stronger strategic, costed and reviewable statement. It is not an official DfE product and should not be described as DfE approved.
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Shared school workspace

Collaborate from different locations

Create one secure school workspace, then share the workspace code and passphrase only with authorised colleagues. Everyone opens and saves the same strategy.

Not connected — saves will remain in this browser.
Section 01

School profile

Start with the information that will identify the published statement.

Optional. Upload your school logo for the strategy preview and printed/PDF output. The logo is processed locally in this browser and is not uploaded by this tool.

Publication requirement: eligible individual schools must publish a separate Inclusion Strategy Statement for 2026/27 by 31 December 2026. MATs may pool resources, but each academy requires its own statement.
Section 02

School context & cohort

Describe commonly occurring and predictable needs at cohort level. Do not identify individual pupils.

Privacy safeguard: do not enter pupil names, dates of birth, addresses, medical identifiers, case histories or information that could identify an individual child. This tool is for strategic cohort-level planning only.
Section 03

Our inclusion vision

Write a concise statement that can appear near the beginning of the published strategy.

Section 04

Evidence & baseline

Use evidence to explain why your priorities have been selected.

Attendance & belonging
Attainment & progress
SEND & additional needs
Behaviour & suspensions
Disadvantage
Pupil / family voice
Section 05

Key barriers to learning & participation

Identify the strategic barriers your inclusion strategy will address. Keep these focused rather than producing an exhaustive list.

Section 06

Existing inclusive provision

The DfE expects IMF to sit alongside existing core funding and the notional SEN budget. Explain what is already in place before describing additional investment.

Section 07

The seven DfE inclusion principles

Use these as a strategic lens. Select the principles directly reflected in your planned work.

Section 08

Strategic priorities & action plan

Each priority should connect barrier, evidence, action, funding, ownership and measurable impact.

Section 09

Funding & costing

Record the IMF allocation and show how it complements the school's wider investment in inclusion.

IMF allocation
£0
Planned IMF spend
£0
IMF unallocated
£0
Total inclusion investment
£0
Schools may carry IMF forward, but carried-forward funding must be used by 31 March 2028 and accounted for in the inclusion strategy statement for the academic year in which it is spent.
Section 10

Impact, evaluation & review

Describe how leaders will know whether the strategy is working.

Section 11

Governance, scrutiny & publication

Record how the strategy has been scrutinised and approved.

Section ownership and completion

Use this to coordinate contributions across the school. These fields are stored with the shared strategy.

Area
Owner
Status
Context, baseline & barriers
SEND & universal provision
Attendance, behaviour & belonging
Disadvantage & attainment
Priorities, funding & impact
Headteacher / governance approval
Section 12

Inclusion Strategy Quality Checker

This is an NAP enhancement designed to test whether the statement is strategically coherent as well as publishable.

Complete your strategy, then run the checker.
Important: this checker supports professional review. It does not certify legal compliance, replace governing-body scrutiny or constitute DfE approval.
Publication output

Inclusion Strategy Statement preview

Generate the publication version, then print or save as PDF from your browser.

Your generated strategy will appear here.