Attendance at school is extremely important and being regularly absent will affect your child’s ability to learn and do well. You may be aware of a recent court case which focused national attention on the fining of parents for taking their children on holidays in school term time. As a result of this, the county council are reviewing the rules around unauthorised absence and issuing penalty notices to parents. Whilst the review is ongoing, head teachers will continue to review all requests for leave in term time and report all unauthorised absences to the county council. As a temporary measure when a child has more than 10 days or more unauthorised absence over two half terms in a row, then a penalty notice may be issued to the parents/carers of that child. If you have any questions with regards to this, please contact your Local Support Team. Contact details can be found online at www.staffordshire.gov.uk/LST