Browsing: Whole school policy Q&As
September, 2019
Q. Do I have to take a pupil off roll if their parent has requested home education? Do I have to let the home education service or anyone else know? What if I have safeguarding concerns?
Q. Is it true that the attendance records of reception years and sixth-formers are not included in our school’s data? I thought they were all included in the Census and attendance is compulsory now till 18
June, 2016
Q. We have a young carer in our school who sometimes needs time off to look after his mother. Do these sessions have to be recorded as absences?
Q. We have a child on our roll who hasn’t attended for over five months. The local authority knows about them and social care are involved. Can we remove them from the admission register?
Q. Can we take a child off roll and then put them back on again, instead of treating their temporary absence overseas as a ‘holiday’?
November, 2015