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Statutory guidance
School behaviour and attendance: parental responsibility measures
- From:
- Department for Education
- Part of:
- Schools: statutory guidance, School behaviour and attendance, and School and college behaviour and attendance
- Published:
- 13 November 2013
- Last updated:
- 5 January 2017, see all updates
- Applies to:
- England
Statutory guidance for schools, local authorities and the police on dealing with poor attendance and behaviour in school.
Documents
School attendance parental responsibility measures: statutory guidance
Ref: DFE-00256-2013 PDF, 291KB, 13 pages
Details
This statutory guidance is for:
- headteachers
- school staff
- governing bodies
- local authorities
- the police (for penalty notices)
It applies to:
- local-authority-maintained schools
- academies and free schools
- pupil referral units (these provide education for children who can’t go to a mainstream school)
The guidance provides information on dealing with poor attendance and behaviour in school using:
- parenting contracts
- parenting orders
- penalty notices
These are measures to deal with anti-social behaviour by children and young people.
Statutory guidance is issued by law. You must follow it unless there’s a good reason not to.
Document information
Published: 13 November 2013
Updated: 5 January 2017
- Reviewed guidance and confirmed it’s up to date. Updated review date.
- First published.