Number of Pupil Absentee Fines by School Type
Dear Department for Education,
Concerning pupil absence, for which parents are considered to have contravened s.444 of the Education Act 1996 and subsequent legislation:
a.) How many parents have been charged;
b.) How many parents have been convicted;
for the absence of pupils from each category of the following schools since 1 September 2012:
(i) a maintained school,
(ii) a pupil referral unit,
(iii) an Academy,
(iv) a city technology college, or
(v) a city college for the technology of the arts;
(vi) an independent school
Yours faithfully,
Andrew Hooper
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Thank you for your recent enquiry. A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible. For information; the departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2018-0021215.
Thank you
Department for Education
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Tel: 0370 000 2288
Dear Mr Hooper,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 10 May
2018.
You requested:
Concerning pupil absence, for which parents are considered to have
contravened s.444 of the ‘Education Act 1996 and subsequent legislation:
a.) How many parents have been charged;
b.) How many parents have been convicted;
for the absence of pupils from each category of the following schools
since 1 September 2012:
(i) a maintained school,
(ii) a pupil referral unit,
(iii) an Academy,
(iv) a city technology college, or
(v) a city college for the technology of the arts;
(vi) an independent school .’
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Following a search of the Department’s paper and electronic records, I
have established that the information you requested is not held by this
Department.
The Department collects information on the number of penalty notices
issued for the absence of a child from school, the number of prosecutions,
the number of parenting orders made by the courts following prosecution,
the number of parenting contracts offered during the period and the number
of education supervision orders issued in each local authority in the
Parental Responsibility for Attendance (PRMA) data collection.
However, the information that local authorities are obligated to provide
is only the number of these in their local authority during the academic
year, and is not broken down in any way, including by type of school.
You may find the “Parental responsibility measures 2016 to 2017 academic
year” statistics release useful, available at the link below, which
includes statistics for all penalty notices, prosecutions, parenting
orders, parenting contracts and education supervision orders at national
(England) and local authority levels:
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics....
You may also find it useful to read the guide to the PRMA statistics,
which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio....
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you should
make a complaint to the Department by writing to me within two calendar
months of the date of this letter. Your complaint will be considered by
an independent review panel, which were not involved in the original
consideration of your request.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner’s Office
Regards,
The absence and exclusions data team
Data insight and statistics division
References
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1. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics...
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