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Attendance from September to April

 

You may or may not be aware that one of the recommendations of our recent ESTYN Inspection is to improve attendance. Pontybrenin’s target is 97% which means pupils are not expected to miss more than 5 days school in the year. As you can appreciate this is a challenging target and in an effort to reduce our absences where we have concerns over level of absence medical evidence will be requested to “authorise” the absence, if this is not provided absence will be recorded as “unauthorised”. Mr Williams will also be holding meetings with parents where necessary. The EWO Miss Grancourt will also be monitoring attendance and working with the school and families.

 

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Penalty Notices

 

The Education (Penalty Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2013 introduced fixed notice penalties for regular non-attendance at school. 

 

The Welsh Government has required all local authorities to draw up and implement their own Local Codes of Conduct to ensure consistency in the issuing of penalty notices. The code will be implemented in Swansea from January, 2015. 

 

 

The Welsh Government states that penalty notices are one option among  number of different interventions available to promote better school attendance. The introduction of these regulations is one part of the Welsh Government strategy to support improved school attendance across Wales.

 

 

The introduction of these regulations mean that parents may now be fined for their child(ren)’s regular non-attendance at school.

 

The local code of conduct, which explains how penalty notices will operate, is available on the Swansea Council website http://www.swansea.gov.uk/educationpenalty 

 

On the website the local authority has also provided answers to some frequently asked questions. 

 

If any parent has concerns about their child/s attendance, then please speak to staff in school for advice and support.

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