Data set from Parental responsibility measures

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Published 14 December 2023

Last updated 14 December 2023

Data on penalty notices, reasons for notices, cases entering attendance case management, parenting orders, parenting contracts and education supervision orders

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Parental responsibility measures
• Release: Academic year 2022/23
• Number of rows: 2,278
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Main reason for issue: Absence due to other unauthorised circumstances
  • Main reason for issue: Arriving late
  • Main reason for issue: Unauthorised family holiday absence
  • Number of cases of attendance case management prosecuted
  • Number of cases of attendance case management withdrawn
  • Number of education supervision orders issued in addition to prosecution
  • Number of education supervision orders issued in place of prosecution
  • Number of parenting contracts offered
  • Number of parenting contracts that were accepted by parent
  • Number of parenting orders implemented
  • Number of parenting orders made by the courts
  • Number of parenting orders not implemented
  • Number of penalty notices paid between 22-28 days
  • Number of penalty notices paid within 21 days
  • Number of penalty notices withdrawn
  • Number of prosecutions following non-payment of penalty notice
  • Number of unresolved cases at the end of the period
  • Rate of penalty notices (PNs) for unauthorised absences issued per 100 enrolments
  • Reason for not implementing parenting orders: breach by parent
  • Reason for not implementing parenting orders: lack of provision
  • Reason for withdrawal of cases: attendance improved
  • Reason for withdrawal of cases: other reason
  • Reason for withdrawal: Issued outside of the terms of the local code of conduct
  • Reason for withdrawal: It appeared that the notice contains material errors
  • Reason for withdrawal: It ought not to have been issued or issued to the person named as the recipient
  • Reason for withdrawal: Where after the expiry of 28 days the penalty is unpaid and local authority do not wish to bring legal proceedings under s44
  • Total number of cases of attendance case management
  • Total number of education supervision orders issued
  • Total number of penalty notices (PNs) for unauthorised absences issued
  • Total number of penalty notices paid within 28 days
  • Total number of pupil enrolments
• Time period: 2009/10 to 2022/23

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	enrolments	pn_issued	pn_issued_rate	reason_pn_hols	reason_pn_late	reason_pn_other	pn_paid	pn_paid_21	pn_paid_22_28	pn_withdrawn	withdrawn_reason_conduct	withdrawn_reason_wrong_issue	withdrawn_reason_material_error	withdrawn_reason_expiry_no_legal	pn_prosecuted_non_payment	pn_unresolved	case_management	case_management_prosecuted	case_management_withdrawn_before_prosecution	case_management_withdrawn_att_improved	case_management_withdrawn_other	parenting_orders_granted	parenting_orders_implemented	parenting_orders_not_imp	parenting_orders_not_imp_lackofprovision	parenting_orders_not_imp_breachbyparent	parenting_contracts_offered	parenting_contracts_accepted	supervision_orders_total	supervision_orders_inplaceofprosecution	supervision_orders_inadditiontoprosecution
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						7364802	398796	5.414890991	356181	985	41630	304477	286394	18083	35445	3490	9105	6022	16828	24553	34321	77106	9236	39031	24450	14581	30	29	26	25	1	13564	10262	46	43	3
202223	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				339740	12713	3.741979161	11666	1	1046	9286	9035	251	1182	142	250	361	429	1283	962	5362	701	2310	1358	952	1	1	0	0	0	602	130	0	0	0
202223	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				1011415	68037	6.726912296	59816	55	8166	49062	46729	2333	6317	896	1238	1605	2578	5064	7594	15589	1850	12071	9242	2829	1	1	0	0	0	2135	1743	7	7	0
202223	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				742450	64137	8.638561519	60623	29	3485	48648	45590	3058	5164	372	1864	449	2479	3923	6402	6849	1116	3981	3092	889	6	7	1	0	1	131	101	14	12	2
202223	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				641821	40848	6.364391318	37811	0	3037	29811	27419	2392	2682	152	801	395	1334	3091	5264	5825	786	3168	1614	1554	7	4	3	3	0	1043	1030	1	1	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 31 variables

Variable name	Variable description
case_management	Total number of cases of attendance case management
case_management_prosecuted	Number of cases of attendance case management prosecuted
case_management_withdrawn_att_improved	Reason for withdrawal of cases: attendance improved
case_management_withdrawn_before_prosecution	Number of cases of attendance case management withdrawn
case_management_withdrawn_other	Reason for withdrawal of cases: other reason
enrolments	Total number of pupil enrolments
parenting_contracts_accepted	Number of parenting contracts that were accepted by parent
parenting_contracts_offered	Number of parenting contracts offered
parenting_orders_granted	Number of parenting orders made by the courts
parenting_orders_implemented	Number of parenting orders implemented
parenting_orders_not_imp	Number of parenting orders not implemented
parenting_orders_not_imp_breachbyparent	Reason for not implementing parenting orders: breach by parent
parenting_orders_not_imp_lackofprovision	Reason for not implementing parenting orders: lack of provision
pn_issued	Total number of penalty notices (PNs) for unauthorised absences issued
pn_issued_rate	Rate of penalty notices (PNs) for unauthorised absences issued per 100 enrolments
pn_paid	Total number of penalty notices paid within 28 days
pn_paid_21	Number of penalty notices paid within 21 days
pn_paid_22_28	Number of penalty notices paid between 22-28 days
pn_prosecuted_non_payment	Number of prosecutions following non-payment of penalty notice
pn_unresolved	Number of unresolved cases at the end of the period
pn_withdrawn	Number of penalty notices withdrawn
reason_pn_hols	Main reason for issue: Unauthorised family holiday absence
reason_pn_late	Main reason for issue: Arriving late
reason_pn_other	Main reason for issue: Absence due to other unauthorised circumstances
supervision_orders_inadditiontoprosecution	Number of education supervision orders issued in addition to prosecution
supervision_orders_inplaceofprosecution	Number of education supervision orders issued in place of prosecution
supervision_orders_total	Total number of education supervision orders issued
withdrawn_reason_conduct	Reason for withdrawal: Issued outside of the terms of the local code of conduct
withdrawn_reason_expiry_no_legal	Reason for withdrawal: Where after the expiry of 28 days the penalty is unpaid and local authority do not wish to bring legal proceedings under s44
withdrawn_reason_material_error	Reason for withdrawal: It appeared that the notice contains material errors
withdrawn_reason_wrong_issue	Reason for withdrawal: It ought not to have been issued or issued to the person named as the recipient

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Footnotes

1. Data for 2019/20 is not available as the data collection did not take place
2. Data for 2020/21 includes a period of two months where measures were disapplied. See publication text or methodology for more information
3. Reason for issuing penalty notices is not available prior to 2016/17

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