Access to the Service (Digital Front Door)

If your school has technical issues with any of the forms below please contact your IT department or technician in the first instance as almost all faults can be resolved internally and usually relate to firewall or anti-virus systems schools use when connecting with external websites. Should there be a widespread issue with the Digital Front Door then a message will be placed below to alert schools. If you have any additional queries, please contact Lee.Kennedy@kent.gov.uk.

The Digital Front Door (DFD) enable schools to complete statutory notifications to KCC, including informing about an exclusion, part time timetable, deleting a pupil from the admissions register and making attendance and sickness returns. Schools will also be able to invite KPAS staff to a formal attendance meeting with parents, request KCC to issue a penalty notice, and request statutory attendance intervention from a KPAS Officer. There is also a pathway for KCC professionals to ask for advice and guidance from the service.

For any request for statutory attendance intervention (number eight below) please refer to the document below before completing the request:

The 11 pathways are accessible below:

  1. Notify of suspension or permanent exclusion
  2. Notify of a potential Child Missing Education (CME)
  3. Notify of an attendance or sickness return
  4. Notify of a deletion from Admissions Register
  5. Notify of a part-time timetable
  6. Invitation to Formal Attendance Meeting
  7. Request a Penalty Notice (PN)
  8. Request statutory attendance intervention
  9. Request exclusion intervention advice
  10. Request for single registration at a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)
  11. Request KPAS advice and support (for KCC services use only)