Fines for holidays

[BigFatLiar]

Don't know if this has been mentioned....
Parents to be fined for school time holidays

Is it £120 per parent per child as is the current system? Or is this £120 per child regardless of parents?

We used to get a holiday form when I was in school,we were allowed 10 days!
don’t know why they changed it.

At the minute the fine is £60 per parent,if that goes to £120 per parent with 2+ dc’s that’s not going to be cheap,

plus if you have a 2 week holiday as well!
that fine is for 5 days?

Sickness absence is coded as ‘I’, and is authorised. However if schools ‘doubt the veracity’ of the illness then they are required to code it as ‘O’, which is unauthorised absence.

No change here as that was the case here anyway people just accept it as the cost of going on holiday out of season and it usually still ends up being cheaper.

i absolutely understand the need for schools to be monitoring kids’ attendance, particularly those from vulnerable backgrounds. However, I worry about there being no rules for private schools.

My child is at a private school and I have taken him out of school for holidays, religious festivals, to visit family, cultural outings. His school didn’t bat an eyelid as they saw the benefit of it, and it didn’t impact his learning. Feels like the public is being strangled on a daily basis, yet a two-tier system is alive and kicking.

You're worried that the government doesn't want to monitor your children's attendance?

what about poverty striken single mums who have school refusers for children? They get them there eventually, but still have to be fined? Life is already too expensive, now they have to fork out money they haven't got for an issue the school is aware of?

Id like to fine the education department for lack of education. Countless days my kid comes from school telling me of his X amounts of free lessons.

this whole county is one big shitshow.

Fuckin 'ell!

Imho Parents are responsible for their children, not the state, if they want to take them out for the occasional holiday, so what?

Sure have a limit, say 8 to 10 days.... my DD was sporty, so i told the school she had the chance for a BC or EA training camp in Mallorca...... not entirely inaccurate as she used to do loads of sport.

Perhaps your authoritarian stance would be better directed at Holiday Companies that hike prices during school hols? zero reason for that.

@Eatthecake80 same applied when I was at school. We had manufacturing, coal mines and shipyards in those days, where those who worked there had fixed holidays and so if your dad (usually) worked there, the only time you could have for a summer holiday.

I am planning on taking DS out of school for a holiday the last week of term next year (year 8) the only time it will happen and I know we may be fined and I am fine with that.

but he has multiple chronic health conditions and if we get and fines or
hassle of the time off for them then I will be happy to fight it through the courts

I can't imagine the money being put back into schools. Where does it go now?

I am not sure this will work with covid around.

It'll be interesting to see how local councils will implement this they're so stretched as it is.
The difference of term time and non-term time holidays is huge perhaps that is where they should start and the government insist anyone ABTA regulated charges the same for holidays all year

I think that is why it is going to be a blanket thing as it was to much of a council lottery.

They're already implementing it, so little change for them (or positive change if functions they currently have are switched to the centre)

(And its not so much that holiday prices are raised during the peak times, rather that they're discounted during the off-peak ones)