To be curious what your school absence policy is?

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Do you have to call in daily even for things like chicken pox? What does your school do if a child doesn't turn up and parent doesn't report it? Especially for eyfs and ks1

Curious to see if ours is overkill

High school daily, primary just once.

We have to ring every day. If we dont they ring me and ask if hes still ill. Primary KS1.

Primary School daily, if we have forgotten to let them know, they'll text or call to find out the reason for absence

Parents have to phone in every day of the illness and speak to someone (not just leave a voicemail).

If a child is absent and no reason has been given by about 9am, the school office will phone parents to find out why. I'm not sure what the procedure is though if no parents/contacts answer the phone.

DD's secondary school have the same policy. The only difference is that they have an automated telephone system which calls the parents every 5 or 10 minutes until someone answers. The primary school staff have do it manually.

The rules changed after this tragic case www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/education/new-rules-for-schools-after-absent-boy-starved-to-death-with-mother-s-body-a3846306.html%3famp

Secondary - phone on first day of illness, email subsequent days.

Daily. Primary and secondary.

Ring every day - it has to be like that for safeguarding reasons.

Otherwise, it could lead to a situation of:

• Child ill for several days
• Child well enough to return to school, but is abducted on way to school
• school presumes child is still ill, so doesn’t call parents to check; nobody realises child is missing until home time, valuable hours have been lost to find them

We email with the title “absence” before 9am.
Email every day but if you know they will be off for the rest of the week for example you just say so. The school secretary emails back.

DD's schools - from primary, secondary and now sixth form. - call in, or use the online form to report an absence. If it is likely to be more than a couple of days with something like chicken pox or a broken limb - just tell them how many days you think, then call/message back on that day if it will be longer. DD's at sixth form now and if she doesn't attend and I have forgotten to let them know I get an email to tell me she's missed a class or more and to let them know the reason. They will accept some responses from the sixth formers themselves too.

My school - as above but done only by phone Once we've been given a number of days the office staff add the relevant code to the registers online. They, or the school's Learning mentor, will then chase on the next day from that if not heard back. If a parent doesn't call to let us know the office or LM will call them.

We have to call in daily and leave a message saying why the child is off, then we have to write a letter upon their return to say why they were off, then they inevitably lose said letter (three times now) and we then have to fill in a form to say why they were off.

Primary.

Daily, it is sometimes annoying when they have vomited so obviously won’t be in the next day aswell though if you don’t call then they will call

We have an app and you fill in an absence section and write in for how long the child will be absent or you can do it daily if necessary

I think we can say when they will be back if it's something like D&V - ie he;s got D&V so won't be in Today or Tomorrow but should be back Monday

When mine had chickenpox I think we just rang in the beginning and said why they were off (but as two of them managed to come out in spots 2-3days before the holidays and the other one did it during the summer

I don't know what happens if you don't ring and let them know

I've always rung daily unless it was known how long they might be off (post hospital, for example).

I've been rung by their secondary school twice. Once was a muddle between 2 of the same name and mine had been entered incorrectly as absent with no phone call. Second time was because I'd forgotten.

Normally daily but when my son got chicken pox a few years ago.the Gp.said he would be contagious for 10 days so.I let the school know and they were happy with that .

Primary
We expect parents to phone in every day of the absence, although we have an answer phone where a message can be left.
If we don't get a call, we phone or message ourselves, we have 3 contacts per child and we will check each one.
If there is still no reply we make a safe and welfare check to the house.
If no response we make a police call to our PCSOs and ask them to check

I think we have to phone everyday (I always have) but we only have to leave a message. I imagine they don't do this for everyone but because my DD is seen regularly by pastoral care (or maybe because she is on a Child in Need plan) if she isn't in school they sometimes pop round to check everything is ok and if we need any help. They were amazing when I had norovirus and couldn't stop being sick and was so shaky I could barely walk - they came and picked up my DD and took her to school.

Ds's school seem to be happy with a message left on the answerphone on the first day. We took Ds away for the last three days before Christmas. We phoned him in sick on the first day (there is a huge back story, Ds is autistic and school are very unsupportive). It took his attendance down to 94%.

I thought it might trigger a phone call from them as Ds is anxious and not happy at school but there was nothing. They just put him in as an authorised absence for those three days. Again I thought someone might question him on his return after Christmas but nobody did.

Ours is the same as spanieleyes although we wait until 9.30am.

Daily and if you don't you recieve a text asking why your child is off. I work in a nursery and if a child hasn't appeared by 10am we have to call to find out why

Primary- call on the first day and then when they go back to school we must send in a signed note stating absence and reasons (and a doctors cert if there is one).

Primary here. We don't need to ring in at all !
Just send a note back detailing the absence on the day of return to school
This is in NI so no fines for school absence here I don't know if that makes a difference but on reading about the safeguarding it seems wise for the school to have some contact with parents when children are off. Some of the above does seem extreme though.
DS was off for 8 school days before in a row with chickenpox and never once did we hear a thing from the school

DS was off for 8 school days before in a row with chickenpox and never once did we hear a thing from the school

On a safeguarding front, I can't begin to imagine how many children slip through the net if children can be absent for almost 2 weeks without any contact.

Daily