Service Description: This Service is responsible for fulfilling statutory responsibilities of the Local Authority in respect of school enrolment, attendance, exclusions and juvenile employment. The Education Welfare Officers can be contacted on 814370 or Duty Mobile Number 07976 009494 or [email protected]
Also known as:- Attendance, Bullying, Chaperone, Child Employment, Employing Children under 16, Exclusions, Performance Licences, Truancy
Answer: ‘Authorised’ and ‘unauthorised’ are the way in which absences are differentiated on the school register. Only the Headteacher, within the context of the law, can approve an absence, not parents. Parental notes, telephone calls or personal contact in relation to particular absences merely provide an explanation. It does do not necessarily mean that schools are obliged to accept that explanation or to authorise the absence. When doubt remains about explanations for absence or where there is no explanation for absence at all, the absence must be treated as “unauthorised absence”. - Related Link