For tutors, tuition centres, co-ops and groups
Attendance and hours for home education providers, kept simply.
Log who came to each session and for how long. See each child's hours week by week. If a council ever asks, export what it asks for and nothing more.
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What it does
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Your account and organisation
Sign up, name your organisation, and you have a private space that only people you invite can see.
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Log a session in seconds
Date, times, subject, who came, and whether a parent took part.
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Hours for each child, week by week
Totals worked out for you, with and without a parent involved.
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Answer a council notice calmly
Record the notice and its due date, then download a spreadsheet or a printable page for the children it covers.
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Invite your staff
Each tutor logs their own sessions and sees only those.
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Your data, your way out
Download everything, or delete a child or your whole organisation for good.
You can try everything with made-up demo children first, then add your own. You can download or delete everything you record at any time.
Ready for the Children Not in School register
Good records are useful on their own. They also mean you are ready for a change in the law. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 sets up registers of children not in school in England and Wales, and adds a new section 436E to the Education Act 1996 about people who provide education outside school.
As the Act is written, once that section is in force:
- A local authority can send you a notice if it reasonably believes you teach a child for more than a set amount of time without a parent actively involved.
- The notice can ask you to confirm whether you do, and to give the child's name, date of birth and home address, the total time you teach them, and how much of that time is without a parent actively involved.
- The notice must give you at least 15 days to reply.
- The authority can charge a penalty if you don't reply, or if what you send is incorrect.
What nobody knows yet
- How much teaching time brings a provider into scopenot yet decided
- The amount of the penaltynot yet decided
- When the duty starts, in England or in Walesnot yet decided
- Whether any providers will be exemptnot yet decided
These are left to regulations that have not been published, as far as we can find. Regulations could also change the details above. This summary is our reading of the Act as passed, last checked on 10 November 2026. It is not legal advice. Read the section on legislation.gov.uk.
The guide answers the questions tutors, groups and parents are asking, with sources. Read the guide
On your side, and the family's
- Nothing leaves Tallybook unless you export it.
- An export holds what a notice asks for, for the children it names, and nothing else.
- We store the minimum about each child, and nothing we don't need.
- No advertising and no tracking on pages that show children's details.
- Delete a child or your whole organisation and the data is really gone.
Price
Free for 14 days. No card needed. After that, per organisation, however many staff you have:
Small
£4 a month
Up to 4 children
For a tutor or small group with a handful of pupils.
Standard
£12 a month
5 children or more
For busier tutors, tuition centres and co-ops. No upper limit.
Both plans include everything, and start with a 14-day free trial with no card needed. Children you have archived don't count. Nothing is ever charged unless you choose to subscribe, and you can leave with your data at any time.
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