Behaviour and attendance resources for schools

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• Example Attendance Contract for Schools February 2025

  An agreement between school and parents

  Attendance

• Template Attendance Contract for Schools February 2025

  An agreement between school and parents

  Attendance

• Behaviour and discipline in schools

  Set out statutory guidance from the Department of Education (DfE) explaining why maintained schools must have a behaviour policy, what it must cover and the role of the governing body and headteachers.

  Behaviour DfE

• Certificate of Service for Penalty Notice

  Penalty Notices issued by School

  Attendance

• Children missing in education tracking form for schools

  Only schools without access to the LA server need this document. Please read the guidance for children on school roll but at risk of missing for further details.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Children missing education statutory guidance

  statutory guidance for local authorities and advice for other groups helping children who are missing education get back into it.

  Attendance DfE

• Children missing education statutory guidance

  DfE statutory guidance for schools and local authorities

  Attendance DfE Hampshire schools

• Code of Conduct for issuing Penalty Notices for unauthorised absence from school (19 August 2024)

  This document is statutory and all establishments must be compliant. It sets out Hampshire County Council’s criteria for the issuing of penalty notices for non attendance in schools.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• County leave of absence form for schools (from 19 August 2024)

  Schools issue this form to parent/carers when they request a leave of absence during term time for their child(ren).

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• School attendance documentation published by DfE

  Collection of DfE published resources

  Attendance DfE

• EHE advice for schools

  Elective Home Education – Information for schools

  Hampshire schools

• Requests for extended leave of absence or to temporarily reside abroad

  Sets out for Hampshire schools and academies advice and guidance on how headteachers should respond and act to request from parents/carers for extended periods of absence (extended leave).

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Good school attendance guide

  A leaflet summarising advice for schools regarding attendance.

  Attendance

• Guidance in relation to Hampshire children

  Intended for Hampshire schools, education centres and alternative providers, this is section 9 of the Promoting pupil attendance and recording absence guidance, It can also be read as a standalone document. It supports all education providers in meeting their statutory duties and sets out clear procedures and the required actions with respect to the commissioning of alternative provision for a child on school roll.

  Attendance

• Education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs

  statutory guidance for local authorities and departmental advice for others ensuring children with health needs receive education.

  Attendance DfE

• Children on school roll but absent and at risk of missing education

  Sets out clear procedures and the required actions for the reporting of pupils who are absent and at risk of becoming missing in education (CME).

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Hampshire Model School Attendance Policy 2024

  This document is intended for use as guidance only. This policy is a framework and should be seen as a starting point for development and should fit your school’s individual context. The purpose is to provide example elements, structures and information commonly found in such policies.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Guidance for schools on support and procedures for pursuing legal action for non-attendance

  Supports all education providers in understanding the possible legal sanctions available and how each sanction is administered.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Guidance information for Parents on Penalty Notices for non-attendance at school - Applied from 19 August 2024

  For schools and academies to raise awareness of penalty notices by sharing with parents or carers who receive either a penalty notice warning or penalty notice.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Notice to improve template letter

  This template is for schools to use when considering a Penalty Notice for circumstances other than an unauthorised holiday.

  Attendance

• Placement of children outside their chronological year group

  Sets out guidance on deceleration or acceleration of pupils outside of their chronological age group.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Penalty Notice Template – First Penalty Notice from 19 August 2024

  This template is for schools to use when issuing a Penalty Notice for an unauthorised holiday that has been taken from 19 August 2024. A Penalty Notice number can be requested from the Penalty Notice Team by completing a ‘Request for Penalty Notice Number’ form. The Penalty Notice Webinar provides a detailed overview of Penalty Notices including when and how to issue a Penalty Notice.

  Attendance

• Penalty Notice Template – Child seen in a public place following exclusion

  This template is for schools to use when issuing a Penalty Notice for a child seen in a public place in the first five days of a fixed term or permanent exclusion. A Penalty Notice number can be requested from the Penalty Notice Team by completing a ‘Request for Penalty Notice Number’ form. The Penalty Notice Webinar provides a detailed overview of Penalty Notices including when and how to issue a Penalty Notice.

  Attendance

• Penalty Notice Guidance

  This guidance is for schools and provides information on Penalty Notices in the context of Working Together to Improve School Attendance and the new National Framework for Penalty Notices. It contains information on who can issue a Penalty Notice, when and how to issue, as well as an overview of the process and what happens if a parent decides not to pay a Penalty Notice.

  Attendance

• Request for Penalty Notice Number

  If your request for a penalty notice is not solely for an unauthorised holiday, please complete the checklist. If the absence is not solely for an unauthorised holiday and the checklist is not completed, a PN number will not be issued.

  Attendance Hampshire schools

• Penalty Notice Template – Second Penalty Notice in rolling three-year period

  This template is for schools to use when issuing a Penalty Notice for a second unauthorised holiday. The first and second holiday must have both been taken from 19 August 2024 and both unauthorised holidays must have been taken within a rolling three-year period. A Penalty Notice number can be requested from the Penalty Notice Team by completing a ‘Request for Penalty Notice Number’ form. The Penalty Notice Webinar provides a detailed overview of Penalty Notices including when and how to issue a Penalty Notice.

  Attendance

• Use of reasonable force in schools

  Guidance about the use of physical restraint in schools for governing bodies, headteachers and school staff.

  Behaviour DfE

• Attendance advice for maintained schools, academies, independent schools and local authorities

  Using pupil registers and attendance codes, and setting the school day and year.

  Attendance DfE

• Screening, searching and confiscation

  Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.

  Behaviour DfE