Parents who take their children out of school without permission for example to go on a family holiday will see fines increased from the start of September
The Government has announced a package of measures this morning in an attempt to reduce pupil absence in school.
The minimum fine will increase from £60 to £80 per parent
Every state school in England will now share their daily attendance registers across the education sector – including with the department for education, councils, and trusts in the next stage of the government’s drive to reduce pupil absence in school.
The to improve attendance has included expanding the attendance hubs programme to 32 hubs across the country, which share best practice to schools supporting more than one million pupils, plus piloting attendance mentors, who work directly with pupils to tackle their barriers to attendance alongside a national awareness campaign aimed at helping parents.
The plan,says the Government is already working, with 380,000 fewer pupils persistently off school over the course of last year.
