penalty notice from former school, no issue date - invalid?

[Zosie7]

Hi,
my daughter's previous school has just issued me with a penalty notice due to lateness in the first part of this year. She left the school a month ago and the penalty notice does not have an issue date although it does say I have to pay within 3 weeks or I have to pay 2,500 or go to prison for 3 months! I'd like to know if the lack of an issue date makes the notice invalid and if my daughter is no longer registered at the school am I still obliged to pay it...can anyone offer any advice please?

Thanx

oh Lambeth - well good luck with that - they will all be on annual leave or in the basement watching porn.

Call the LEA in the number on their website. Better safe www.registerbyinternet.comthan sorry. Then quibble over lack of issue date etc. You may have a good case for getting the notice waived for not being correctly issued. But definitely don't ignore it.

Sorry for random website inserted there. Stupid phone...

Lambeth Council have in my experience a long history of issuing invalid legal notices

The number is valid, I've googled it, still no answer though (I've been ringing intermittently since 9am). I'm now trying a different number in the same department. Already put me through to the wrong number and now on hold. Thankfully someone who seems to care, they have written at email - marked urgent - and asked them to call me back, let's see what happens...

Yeah NigellasDealer -you must have had dealings with Lambeth before then, not once have they ever handled any issue efficiently!!

This all sounds beyond strange.
At my school, fines aren't even issued for unauthorised holidays for up to 3 weeks, let alone alleged (not even proven) lateness. How can it be that some people are stung for this and others aren't?

This is my first experience of an Academy but I'm telling you I will definitely steer clear in the future and highly recommend that other parents do also. From the onset we felt uncomfortable at this school. My daughter is a keen cyclist and when we tried for her to cycle and leave the bike at school they very aggressively informed me it would be removed and destroyed if I ever brought it in again! Children are punished if they don't wear the right uniform - i.e incorrect sock colour, which I think instills shame. Children are always marked down instead of praised with the incentive that this will make them aim higher. No access to the library, poor resources. The school has a very high turn over of student teachers, I believe this is due to the school being in court for a libel case and dishing out over 100,000 to a private PR company. I find it quite coincidental that after I wrote a letter to the school expressing my issues with their policies that I receive this penalty notice. And the school? Durand Academy

Many community schools enforce their uniform rules. Nothing to do with being an academy. I can't comment on the other claims but you might want to get the post deleted. As it stands the academy could make a libel claim against you. Whilst you would be able to defend yourself if you could prove your claims are true it could still be a costly experience.

As soon as I saw the thread title I knew it must be fucking Lambeth Council!

We need to start a revolution, some of the evil bullshit this council is trying to pull on some of the most vulnerable at risk people is beyond sickening.

The "alleged" remark was relating to this: "The school also had a bizarre policy of making children wait at reception until after registration even if they were only a couple of minutes late..."