Academic year 2024/25

Parental responsibility measures

Local authority and national data on penalty notices, attendance case management, parenting orders and contracts, education supervision orders.

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  • Parental responsibility measures

    Local authority, National, Regional

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

    Number of rows
    2,606
    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
    Time period
    2009/10 to 2024/25
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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

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.

Coverage

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 2024/25. Data is not available for 2019/20, due to the pandemic.

It includes data on: 

  • penalty notices issued 
  • penalty notices paid and withdrawn 
  • prosecutions following non-payment of a penalty notice 
  • cases entering the attendance case management system (a process setting out actions and time frame for improving a child’s attendance) 
  • parenting orders and parenting contracts 

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.

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

This dataset has not had suppression applied. 

Conventions 

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data. 

‘x’ - unavailable


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