Local authority and national data on penalty notices, attendance case management, parenting orders and contracts, education supervision orders.
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Total number of penalty notices (PNs) for unauthorised absences issued in England between 2009/10 and 2023/24
Numbers of attendance case management cases, parenting contracts, parenting orders, education supervision orders
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Data on penalty notices, reasons for penalty notices, cases entering attendance case management, parenting orders, parenting contracts and education supervision orders
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This document describes the data included in the ‘Parental responsibility measures in England' official statistics release’s underlying data file. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in a new tab) (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data.
The methodology should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.
Information on parental responsibility measures for attendance used by schools and local authorities to improve poor attendance in schools. The underlying data file includes national, regional and local authority-level information for England from 2009/10 through to 2023/24. Data is not available for 2019/20.
It includes data on:
The information is based on local authority data collected through the parental responsibility measures attendance census. Refer to the methodology documentation for more information on data collection and coverage.
This dataset has not had suppression applied.
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
‘x’ - unavailable
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