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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2261",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations revoke the previous regulations on schools setting absence targets and replace them. The governing body of every maintained school as defined will be required to set by 31 December of each year, a target for the expected number of absences for the next academic year.\nIn addition, the Secretary of State may, by giving the requisite notice, require a governing body to set absence targets to reduce levels of absence for pupils in a particular group (as specified in the schedule), levels of absence for a particular reason or levels of persistent absence (as defined). In order to require these targets to be set, the Secretary of State has to be satisfied that the particular level is higher than the national average and that it is appropriate for a target to be set.\nThe national average level for absence is published annually in “Pupil Absence in Schools in England”. The level is the total number of sessions missed expressed as a percentage of the total number of sessions available. For the purposes of persistent absence (regulation 8) the calculation is based on the number of pupils registered at the school as opposed to the number of pupils actually attending the school.\nAll targets have to be submitted to the local education authority which then has to notify the Secretary of State that the targets have been set and supply the targets if requested to do so. Targets agreed pursuant to regulation 4 will continue to be notified to the Secretary of State under the School and Local Targets (SALT) process.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2261/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:46:13.959205+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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