School fines

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Just want to ask a question my partner has 4 kids with his ex partner who's very much a pain in the arse the kids only wanna see him when they want money he tries ringing them everyday none of them answer they never wanna come see him his kids have always been difficult making up lies about me even though I don't see them they never wanna go to school been like this since primary school but now they r in high school he dosent get told nothing now the youngest girl is not going to school which he's just found out and is now being threatened with a fine can he be fined if he has no idea of situation he works so it's difficult for him to know they r going up school I just think it's unfair as the mother just let's them stay off weather they r I'll or not his son is on ps4 til early hours of morning and then can't get up for school so she leaves him but then blames my partner just want some advice

Has he contacted the secondary school and asked to be included in the contacts lists?

My dh gets all of the same information I do. All of the texts from school, he has his own ‘parent-pay’ sign in and his own ‘show my homework ‘ sign in.

It depends how much involvement he has. Is he a named contact at the school for the children? Does he get sent letters and first day absence texts? If he does - arguably he could be liable. If not, he'd have a good case to say he wasn't aware.
That said, if he has 4 kids who aren't attending school, maybe he needs to take a bit more responsibility in trying to help them. That sounds like a dire situation!

The previous poster is wrong. It does not depend on involvement. As the law stands, if he has parental responsibility he can be fined regardless of how much (or how little) involvement he has in the child's life.

He can be fined but that doesn't mean he necessarily will. Someone will make a judgment on whether they think it is reasonable.