School attendance guidance and updates.
School Attendance Process team
The School Attendance Process team replaces the Education Welfare Service. It’s a new service that focuses exclusively on statutory functions relating to education matters, and it forms part of the newly formed Attendance, Missing and Home Education Service.
The School Attendance Process team carries out statutory action for unsatisfactory school attendance matters at the request of schools and academies. This includes issuing penalty notices and undertaking prosecutions in relation to unsatisfactory school attendance, timekeeping and unauthorised leave of absence taken during term time.
The DfE has issued statutory guidance for schools and academies: Working together to improve school attendance.
In line with the new guidance, the local authority targeted support for attendance will be supported by the Inclusion Support Advisory Service. This will be managed by the Inclusion Support Advisory Teacher who has been assigned to your school.
More information about penalty notices and the Penalty Notices Code of Conduct is available on the Derbyshire County Council website.
Contact information
The School Attendance Process team can be contacted at:
CS.AttendanceProcessTeam@derbyshire.gov.uk