Attendance

Guidance and support to help improve school attendance and overcome barriers that prevent pupils from accessing education.

Code of Conduct for issuing Penalty Notices

Penalty notices are one of the sanctions available for this offence and offer a means of swift intervention, which can be used to combat attendance problems before they become entrenched.

For further guidance on the issuing of penalty notices for unauthorised leave, the national threshold and the process of issuing penalty notices for unauthorised patterns of absence  please see the full Code of Conduct: Penalty Notice Code of Conduct