Jan 25 Early intervention: raising attendance in primary schools

Aug 25 Q. Can I send a child home for bad behaviour until his parent comes in for a meeting? They’re not formally excluded so what do I put in the register?

Jun 09 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?

Jun 09 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?

Jun 09 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’?

Mar 22 Q. Can our school close for Eid rather than having a lot of children absent?

Nov 26 Q. What are the rules about children and part-time work in the sixth form? Can our students have a job in the daytime as well as coming into college?

Nov 24 Q. What is ‘flexi-schooling’? I have heard that it means a child, even of compulsory school age, only has to attend part-time. Is this right?

Jun 08 Q. Can we vary the dates of our school terms and the number of days we open? We’d like to avoid at least some of the peak holiday times to encourage parents not to take their children away in term time.

Jun 08 Q. We have a pupil with serious health issues who keeps having time in hospital. All her absence is authorised, so it seems very unfair that she is classed as a ‘persistent absentee’. Can we do anything about it?