Home Visit Report Template
A structured report for documenting home visits conducted by school staff, capturing the home environment observations, family discussion points, and agreed actions.
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Greenwood International School HOME VISIT REPORT Student: Emma Thompson Visit Date: 2026-09-01 Time: [visit_time] Visitor: [visitor_name] ([visitor_role]) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERSON(S) MET [person_met] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOME ENVIRONMENT Housing type: [Description] General condition: [Description] Study space available: Yes/No Internet access: Yes/No Other children in household: [Number] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCUSSION POINTS Topics discussed: 1. [Topic] 2. [Topic] 3. [Topic] Family concerns raised: 1. [Concern] 2. [Concern] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AGREED ACTIONS School will: • [Action 1] • [Action 2] Family will: • [Action 1] • [Action 2] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW-UP □ Yes — Date: _________ □ No Visitor Signature: _________________ Date: _________
About This Template
A structured record of a home visit: attendees, observations, agreements and next steps, with dates and signatures for the pupil's file.
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Topics this template covers: home visit · visit report · family engagement · welfare visit
How to Use This Template
Record Visit Date, Visit Time, Visitor Name and Visitor Role before leaving the house, then note Person(s) Met — grandparents and carers matter if they share care.
Write Home Environment Observations factually and neutrally, capture Discussion Points in the family's own concerns first, then Agreed Actions with owners. Complete Follow-Up Required with a date. Store the report as confidential safeguarding documentation with restricted access, share the agreed actions (not the observations) with the form tutor, and diarise the follow-up.
Agree the visit time with the family beforehand and take a colleague where concerns already exist, recording both under Visitor Role. Leave a written card with the school contact afterwards, and bring agreed actions to the next pastoral review instead of letting them sit unread in the file.
When to Use This Template
First unexplained absence
Send the initial follow-up the day after an absence is recorded, asking for a reason and setting a reply deadline while the details are still fresh.
Patterns of repeated absence
When absences repeat, escalate with the same template: include the attendance percentage against the policy threshold and the support being offered.
Logging calls and meetings
Record every contact attempt — phone calls, letters and meetings — with dates and outcomes so the attendance file shows a complete, dated trail if the case escalates.
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