School Attendance
The Government expects Schools and Local Authorities to:
- Promote good attendance and reduce absence, including persistent absence;
- Ensure every pupil has access to full time education to which they are entitled
- Act early to address patterns of absence
- Parents to perform their legal duty by ensuing their children on compulsory school age who are registered at school attend regularly
- All pupils to be punctual to their lessons
Please find below the latest guidance from the Depart of Education regarding attendance (July 2019) which details the above information: