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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
You must make sure your child gets a full-time education that meets their…
If you’re having trouble getting your child to go to school, the school…
Local councils and schools can use various legal powers if your child is…
Fortnightly pupil attendance statistics, and autumn, combined autumn and spring, and full year pupil absence statistics.
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.
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.
How we produce statistics on pupil absence in schools.
Absence statistics on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded schools.
This release reports on pupil absence in primary and secondary schools in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
This series brings together all documents relating to Sickness absence data
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 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.
Study into the factors associated with persistent absence for unauthorised other reasons (PAUO) in secondary school-aged pupils.
Reports providing brief commentary on the Cabinet Office sickness absence results.
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