School asking for medical evidence.

[Flossy1989]

DD attendance is not the best it's 89.6 she's off now with sickness abd and the poops. The school is asking for medical evidence. I mentioned this some time ago to the gp. Gp said they should not be demanding medical evidence. Also I don't take my children to the gp over a tummy bug. It's not needed and it's wasting GP time.

I'm tempted to send them a picture of her vomit. I won't. It just really pisses me off gp is not impressed either from what he said before.

I'm on hold to gp /reception now doubt I will get anywhere. Caller number 15

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Attendance is safeguarding.

Try sitting in an emergency strategy meeting with social work, police, school nurses and safeguarding leads when they ask you why you haven't bothered looking into a child's attendance that is below 90%.
Schools are the first places that get blamed during serious case reviews for an abused child that will almost certainly have low attendance.
They have every right to ask. Not threaten - but ask and try to verify. It's safeguarding. It saves lives all the time and it's tough of you're put out because they haven't taken your word for it immediately.
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What unutterable bollocks this post is…
By what measure is her attendance fine?

@Octavia64

*I am one of those people.

I have an undergraduate degree in economics and an undergraduate degree in mathematics.

One of the things I learnt was that correlation is not causation.*

If you read my post you would see I said there tends to be a connection not that one causes the other. There is a possibility there is another factor that causes both.

However you felt the need to say what your experience was. If you don't think the two are connected why is your experience relevant?

Then it looks like it’s unauthorised BY THEM. Presumably you’ve authorised your own child’s absence…what a load of utter bollox!

And I also agree with @Chipsahoy none of that nonsense in Scotland…I’ve no idea why parents in England tolerate this crap

My daughter had quite a lot of time off last autumn and even though I sent her in several times dosed on Paracetamol and with an Ibuprofen for lunch time, they phoned me up to fetch her home. I then got an email, complaining that she'd had too much time off and that it needed to be supported by a doctor's note.

The doctor wrote to the effect, "High temperature, vomiting pus leaking from her ear, severe ear infection."

I took it to the school and the receptionist was apologetic and told me the emails are automatic and that they knew she was actually ill.

Gaah!

Extremely low.. 89 % isn't extremely low that like 6 days off and if your 5 mins late they count that as half a day . It takes a week to recover and not transmit a tummy bug lol this comment made me laugh . This is why we have so much sickness in schools . People sending children in unwell scared they will get fined. Round and round the circus goes. 🎪
I'd ignore the letter .

I haven't read the full thread but if she is sick again, put a little slip of paper next to the bowl of sick with her name on and the date, take a picture and send it to the school. If they want evidence, give them evidence, they shouldn't ask for evidence of a tummy bug if they can't handle a vomit picture. I hope your DD feels better soon.