Regulation 7 Unauthorised absence targets

a final target for the following school year, being the reviewed target set in the previous school year but revised if the governing body deem it necessary to do so;

a reviewed target for the school year next but one being the provisional target set in the previous school year but revised if the governing body deem it necessary to do so; and

a provisional target for the school year next but two.

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

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

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

“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;

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

“relevant day pupil” in relation to a school and to a school year means a pupil who the governing body anticipate will be registered at that school on the Schools' Census enumeration date in that year and who is not–