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Attendance and Behaviour: Penalty Notices

Updated: 26 June 2006 Penalty notices for absence from school can be issued in Kent from April 2005. Following consultation on a Code of Conduct, it was agreed that Notices would be issued by the Attendance and Behaviour Service based on requests from schools and the police. The following circumstances will be considered as appropriate reasons for the issuing of Penalty Notices:

Truancy including truancy sweeps
Parentally-condoned absences
Excessive holidays in term time
Excessive delayed return from extended holidays
Persistent lateness after the register has closed

A pupil has to be absent from school in one of these circumstances for at least 10 sessions in any term before the issuing of a Penalty Notice can be considered Following a request for the issuing of a Penalty Notice a check is made that the request meets the conditions of the Code of Conduct. A warning letter will then be sent to parents explaining that unless their child attends full time for the next 15 days a Penalty Notice will be issued. Before making requests schools need to:

Revise their attendance policy to incorporate the use of Penalty Notices
Inform all parents of the process

Schools may also wish to warn individual parents where attendance is a concern that they are at risk of referral for a Penalty Notice Documentation Please Note: Some of these documents contain merge fields. If you notice when you open a document that it contains 'Error! Bookmark not Found', please press Alt+F9.

Penalty Notices: Guidance: Holidays in Term-Time Revised June 2006
Penalty Notices: Code of Conduct Revised June 2006
Penalty Notices: Request to Issue Penalty Notice Revised June 2007
Penalty Notices: Model School Letter Revised June 2006
Penalty Notices: Formal Warning
Penalty Notices: Penalty Notice

For further information please contact Area Co-ordination Managers:

East Kent: Lindy Whitfield: 01227 284501: Lindy Whitfield
Mid Kent:Sylvia Jones: 01233 898533: Sylvia Jones
West Kent: Eleanor Morgan: 01732 225110: Eleanor Morgan

| Published: 3-8-06 | TOP