@2021hastobebetter the solution for the making of the chicken curry is surely to buy a cheap ready meal one - slop it in a frying pan and take a picture? 
maybe a chopped vegetable on top for good measure.....
The problem is it’s not the schools who give out sanctions and fine - taking the issue higher is the mandatory process pre COVID of reporting it to the powers that be, ie the local authority for your school. Heads have a legal obligation in normal times to report unauthorised and frequent absences, or holidays taken in term time. The fines come from your LA, not the school.
Now I’m not sure exactly how it’s working “high up” for those families not doing the work for whatever reason it is. I’ve got a whopping great tick chart going for stuff coming in. I’m under instruction from my head to check in with parents if I haven’t received anything for a week unless I know otherwise. I would say about 60% in my class are submitting the majority of work this time, a good portion of the rest are focusing on their maths and literacy and about 10% I’m seeing zilch. Yes, I’m under instruction to keep an eye on them - not pressurise them, but enquire. I have to say all of these 10% are like so many on here - two working parents who aren’t key workers but still have to work.
I wish Ofsted would back off for a year. It wouldn’t surprise me if many Good and Outstanding schools slip a level, because unfortunately Ofsted like to focus on how many children are achieving or exceeding average levels rather than true value added and it’s plainly obvious that standards will dip and be totally mixed across the board and Ofsted won’t consider why. Or care. I’m also expecting to hear of lots of teachers in disciplinary trouble and HTs being forced to resign due to average scores dropping. This is part of the huge battle.
Staff meeting in September, after some children had been off for 6 months. I remember it well - assessments had been done (that should have been done end of summer term) and the Deputy turns to different years groups and says “standards have slipped....why? Can you explain this?”
Sadly this is how Ofsted, government, many senior management staff (who aren’t physically in classrooms) are going to think, which makes the situation near on impossible.
Parents can’t juggle schooling and work in many cases (bloody well done those of you who are), the curriculums not suspended and the expectations of schools has not changed (ie provide a full education for all), there’s thousands of different and perfectly reasonable opinions on just how much work is enough and how it should be delivered, some children complete 3 hours of work in 1 and some take 6 hours instead of 3, teachers are under instruction from powers that have no real idea, so have to push it through regardless of circumstances for everyone in their class.......mix that altogether and voila, we have this lovely situation.
To answer the original question, I honestly can’t see a lack of ability to carry out the online learning leading to a sanction. A welfare check from school perhaps and I think that’s perfectly reasonable, for some children this is not a safe situation.