School Fines Somerset

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Dear Somerset County Council,

Id like to know how many TPNs (Truancy Penalty Notices) in total have been issued each month for the last 3 years and how many have been withdrawn each month for the last 3 years.

Also how many prosecutions were brought where the allegation was a breach of s444 of the Education Act 1986 in the last 6 years. Include all prosecutions, i.e. those where the summons was issued after a failure to pay a TPN AND prosecutions brought where no TPN had been issued.

Can you provide % of prosecutions that resulted in an acquital, what % did the parents plead guilty to, and what % did they plead not guilty.

Can you tell me how many prosecutions have been started and later withdrawn.

What % of the total summonses quoted attendance dates of longer than 3 months?

How many TPNs were issued where the child was not of compulsory school age and how many of these were paid?

Can I also have a copy of the code of conduct on school attendance / truancy penalty notices

Yours faithfully,

Jon Platt

Somerset County Council,

Somerset County Council Information Request Team
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Dear Mr Platt
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for information about Truancy Penalty
Notices which we received on 11 July 2016.

We are currently dealing with your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and we aim to send our response to you on or before 8
August 2016.
 
Please note that we are experiencing a high level of requests at the
moment, and there may be a delay in responding to your request. We will
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Dear Somerset County Council,

Way way overdue. Statutory duty of 20 days?? Please explain?

Yours sincerely,

Jon Platt

Somerset County Council,

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Dear Mr Platt
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 11 July 2016.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.

Please accept our apologies for the delay which was the result of the
particularly high volume of information requests we have recieved over the
past few months.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Louisa Gosling
Information Governance Officer
Strategic ICT
07977401102
 
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Dear Somerset County Council,

Somerset has fined and prosecuted thousands of parents on an allegation that THEY have breached their STATUTORY DUTY (to ensure their children attend school regularly) but then, when a member of the public seeks data on the number of penalty notices SCC FAILS IN THEIR STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS under the FOI Act.

Is an apology from patents sufficient to remedy the allegation you aim at them? SCC appears to suggest that is the case with this breach by you, an apology is sufficient. I assure you it is not and i want a full review and explanation of why you failed to comply with my request within 20 working days as required BY LAW.

I also want better data. I don't accept that you don't have monthly data. At the very least you could supply the numbers issued in June July and August 2015 and 2016 so we can see if the May 13th High Court decision has had any impact on the number of 'fines' being issued.

Yours sincerely,

Jon Platt

Somerset County Council,

Information request
Our reference: 1394766

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Dear Mr Platt
 
I am sorry you are dissatisfied with our response to your information
request.

We are working on the internal review you have requested, and we expect to
complete the process within the next 5 working days
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Louisa Gosling
Information Governance Officer
Strategic ICT

 
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Somerset County Council,

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Dear Mr Platt
 
Please find the requested internal review attached
Yours sincerely
 
 
Louisa Gosling
Information Governance Officer
Strategic ICT
07977401102
 
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