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Parental responsibility measures

Local authority data on penalty notices, parenting orders and parenting contracts (for unauthorised absence).

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
7 July 2016
Last updated:
29 January 2026
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  1. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2024 to 2025 academic year'.

  2. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2023 to 2024 academic year'.

  3. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2022 to 2023 academic year'.

  4. 'Parental responsibility measures: 2021 to 2022 academic year' was added.

  5. Added Parental responsibility measures: 2020 to 2021 academic year.

  6. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2018 to 2019 academic year'.

  7. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2017 to 2018'.

  8. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2016 to 2017 academic year'.

  9. Added 'Parental responsibility measures: 2015 to 2016 academic year'.

  10. First published.

Statistics on the parental responsibility measures used by schools and local authorities to improve poor pupil attendance, including penalty notices, parenting orders and parenting contracts.

We originally published this information as transparency data. From the 2013 to 2014 academic year, the data is classified as ‘official statistics’.

Earlier releases are also available at the National Archives website.

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