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

+ full page history

1. 5 January 2017 Reviewed guidance and confirmed it’s up to date. Updated review date.
2. 13 November 2013 First published.

From: Department for Education

Part of: Schools: statutory guidance School behaviour and attendance School and college behaviour and attendance