Understand Today

Today is the starting point for staff. It brings together the setting’s children and rooms for the current day.

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Read the totals

• Checked in: children currently recorded as present.
• Expected: scheduled children still due to arrive, excluding those marked absent and those already in. A child who has left may be expected back for a later part of their day.
• Off today: children shown as off for the day.
• Staff in: staff with recorded attendance. Allocating a staff member to a room does not check them in.

Open a room to see the children and staff relevant to it. A child is expected in the room where their next part of the day starts.

If the numbers look wrong

For a child who is missing from Expected, check their status, schedule dates, term dates, any one-off day and any recorded absence. Also check whether the setting is closed.

For a child shown as Checked in after leaving, record or correct their check-out. Changing their schedule will not close their attendance record.

For a staff member missing from Staff in, check whether they have recorded a check-in. Their allocated room and working schedule describe where they belong and when they are due; neither records arrival.

Next: Check children in and out.