Absence management process for schools
Level 4: preparation for legal action
Statutory attendance measures should be a last resort and usually as part of a multi-Agency decision making process.
Parents should be informed of the plan to proceed to statutory intervention in good time.
Level 4 will include a further meeting offered to the family to explore the reasons for continued concerns around school attendance. The Attendance Action Plan will be reviewed, and a full explanation of statutory action will be explained.
Following this meeting a Final Warning will be issued to the parents or carers with a maximum of a 6 week monitoring period. During this monitoring period the Education Welfare Team will make fortnightly contact with the family.
Should the attendance not improve at the end of the monitoring period then the case will be prepared for Court.