questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of current school attendance enforcement policies in relation to parents with shared custody arrangements; and what plans her Department has to update guidance to local authorities to ensure that penalty notices are issued proportionately where one parent did not have care or control of the child during the period of absence.
answerText: The department’s guidance sets out that schools and local authorities should take a support first approach when working with families to ensure that their children regularly attend, and that they must consider whether a penalty notice for absence is appro...
heading: Pupils: Attendance