{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-2007/regulation-7",
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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": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duty on schools to set focused absence targets",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) the Secretary of State is satisfied that it is appropriate; and\n(b) it appears to the Secretary of State that the level of absence in a school for any reason specified in the notice is higher than the national average for that reason,\nthe Secretary of State may give notice to the governing body of that school in accordance with regulation 9 that it is to set a target to reduce the level of absence for that reason.\n(2) The target to be set is the total number of absences of pupils for that reason which the governing body intends that pupils at the school will not exceed in the school year, expressed as a percentage of the total number of possible attendances for the pupils absent for that reason.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2261/regulation/7",
    "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."
}