Access to the Service (Digital Front Door)

If you have any technical issues with any of these forms please email 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)