A total of 32.7 million pupil school days were missed due to
unauthorised absences in 2012 - 13.
This release provides information on the levels of overall, authorised and
unauthorised absence in:
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.
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.
Under the current regulations, schools
in England no longer have the latitude to approve term - time holidays apart from
in «exceptional cases», which has subsequently led to a surge
in parents being fined and prosecuted for
unauthorised absences.
«Even small amounts of
unauthorised absence from school were associated with substantial falls
in average Naplan (National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy) test scores.
«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.
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.