# The School Performance Information (Wales) Regulations 2011, Regulation 8: Provision of information about authorised and unauthorised absence to the authority

Extent: E+W

The governing body of every maintained school and maintained nursery school and the proprietor of every non-maintained special school or independent school must provide the authority with the following information for the reporting school year upon receiving a written request from the authority for such information within the period specified by it in such a request:
(a) the total number of school sessions in the reporting school year during which the pupil was registered at the school;
(b) the total number of such sessions in the reporting school year attended by the pupil; and
(c) the total number of authorised and unauthorised absences for the pupil.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1963/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-performance-information-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-8
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