Regulation 18 Targets for unauthorised absences

(1)

The unauthorised absence rate referred to in regulation 11 is the unauthorised absence rate for each of the school years in respect of which the target is being set, in schools maintained by the authority which provide secondary education, other than special schools and any school situated in a hospital.

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

“the unauthorised absence rate”, in relation to an authority and to any school year, means the total number of unauthorised absences from schools maintained by the authority in the applicable period during that year, expressed as a percentage of the total number of possible attendances in that period;

(b)

“unauthorised absence” means an occasion on which a relevant day pupil is registered as absent from school without authority pursuant to the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995^f1;

(c)

“the total number of possible attendances”, in relation to an authority and to any school year, means the number produced by multiplying the number of relevant day pupils at schools maintained by the authority by the number of school sessions in the applicable period in that year;

(d)

“relevant day pupil”, in relation to a school and to a school year, means a pupil registered at that school apart from—

(i)

a boarder, or

(ii)

a pupil who, before the beginning of that school year, either has not attained the age of ten years and six months, or has attained the age of sixteen years;

(e)

“the applicable period”, in relation to a school year, means the period starting with the beginning of that year and finishing with the end of the school day falling on the Friday before the last Monday in May in that year; and

(f)

“secondary education” has the meaning given to it in section 2(2) of the 1996 Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1995/2089, as amended by S.I. 1997/2624, S.I. 1999/2267 and S.I. 2001/1109 (W.53).