10 term-time days off a year

[PrettyCandles]

Is it true that you are allowed 10 days off a year during term-time? Can the school refuse permission for them? And is it true that the LEA fines you for missing more days than that without permission from the school?

These are such naive questions tht I'm embarrassed to ask ds's school!

[Freckle]

I think that schools are allowed to authorise an absence of up to 10 days per school year. This apparently means they can only authorise one absence per year, i.e. you can't take 3 days here, 2 there and 5 later on.

Anything beyond that one absence will be classed as an unauthorised absence.

[waterfalls]

My ds school requires 6 weeks notice before absence, and they can feruse for reasons such as, if the child is behind in certain or all areas.

[waterfalls]

refuse.......even.

[Freckle]

Government advice to schools is that they can authorise an absence from school for up to 10 days for a family holiday. Again, this can only be done once, not piecemeal over the year.

[louise35]

Its been announced that the 10 day allowance has been scrapped in our LEA so after September this year our schools won't authorise any absence AT ALL within term time which I think is disgusting considering not all parents can afford to book their holidays in the school hols due to travel companies ripping us off at these times. Has anyone else been told that their school won't be allowing the 10 days any more? I live in Yorkshire in Wakefield LEA.