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You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance
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This series brings together all documents relating to sickness absence in the Civil Service.
Statistics on residency-based school absences and attainment data for pupils by gender, free school meal eligibility and ethnicity.
Fortnightly pupil attendance statistics, and autumn, combined autumn and spring, and full year pupil absence statistics.
Guidance for EU Settlement Scheme applicants in or outside the UK who have been affected by restrictions associated with coronavirus.
Sickness absence data for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and its partner organisations.
Absence statistics on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded schools.
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan's address at the Education World Forum in London.
This series brings together all documents relating to Sickness absence data
This release reports on pupil absence in primary and secondary schools in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
What to do if your guest will be temporarily absent from your accommodation.
Information about what to do if your guest will temporarily be absent from the UK.
How we produce statistics on pupil absence in schools.
How schools improve and maintain attendance using different approaches.
Practice note on the arrangements registered organisations should make to cover for an authorised adviser's absence.
Reports providing brief commentary on the Cabinet Office sickness absence results.
Study into the factors associated with persistent absence for unauthorised other reasons (PAUO) in secondary school-aged pupils.
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