While the proportion
of unauthorised absences has fallen, the percentage of unauthorised holiday absences has risen, from 3.2 per cent to 4.4 per cent.
«Even small amounts
of unauthorised absence from school were associated with substantial falls in average Naplan (National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy) test scores.
Not exact matches
The
unauthorised absence rate in state - funded primary, state - funded secondary and special schools was 1.3 per cent in 2016/17, an increase from 1.1 per cent in 2015/16 — the rate
of unauthorised holiday
absence also increasing from 0.3 to 0.4 per cent.
Statistics released by the Department for Education also show that the rate
of unauthorised holiday
absences is also increasing.
A total
of 32.7 million pupil school days were missed due to
unauthorised absences in 2012 - 13.
Parents can face fines
of # 60 per child, for
unauthorised absences, which rises to # 120 if unpaid after three weeks.
The move would would ultimately end the current policy which has seen a significant rise in the number
of parents being fined for
unauthorised absences.
«Increasingly over the last few years... there have been more and more schools saying: «No we can't allow this anymore because
of this issue with
unauthorised absence.»»
A spokeswoman for Derbyshire County Council said: «The council has approved new interim arrangements following the Isle
of Wight High Court ruling on
unauthorised pupil
absences.
However, a Renfrewshire Council spokesman argued that: «The combined figures for truancy and unexplained
absence reflect a wide variety
of reasons for
unauthorised absence from school for part or all
of the school day.
One
of the things that we're very excited about is now we're pulling the data together to be able to unpack the meaning
of an unexplained or an
unauthorised absence.
The number
of fines issued to parents for
unauthorised pupil
absence has fallen by 5.4 per cent.
«It essentially reflects an increased level
of enforcement activity being requested by schools in response to parents removing their children from school in term time for an
unauthorised leave
of absence,» he said.
«Increasingly over the last few years... there have been more and more schools saying: «No we can't allow this any more because
of this issue with
unauthorised absence.»»
The local education authority may decide that parents could be liable for a fixed penalty notice
of # 60 if, due to
unauthorised absences, their child's attendance falls below 90 % and also that parents may be liable for fast track prosecution (involving further fines or a custodial sentence
of up to three months) if, due to
unauthorised absences, their child's attendance is consistently below 90 %.
experienced a reduction
of 0.19 percentage points in the total number
of lessons missed due to
unauthorised absence.
In those circumstances, such as poor performance, perhaps being late for work on several occasions or
unauthorised absence, the employee should be entitled firstly to a written warning, thereafter a period
of time to improve performance and / or behaviour before a second written warning and then perhaps dismissal if there is a further repeat provided.
We estimated the impact
of maternal alcohol use disorder on total,
unauthorised and authorised
absences in the exposed populations.
While the greatest effect appeared to be on
unauthorised absences, 8 %
of authorised
absences in the non-Indigenous cohort could be attributed to maternal alcohol use disorder.
This release provides information on the levels
of overall, authorised and
unauthorised absence in:
Levels
of overall, authorised and
unauthorised absence by school type, with indicative statistics on persistent absentees.