Request for Leave during Term Time

Information for parents/carers

'Improving attendance is everyone’s business’, and it is important that we, as your child’s school, work together in partnership with you, your family, your child, and the wider community.
Any holiday-related absence taken that includes 10 sessions (5 days) in 10 weeks, may result in a Penalty Notice.
The penalty amount is increasing to £160 from September 2024 (reduced to £80 if paid within 21 days for the first offence). If a parent receives a second penalty notice within a rolling three-year period (following 1^st September 2024) the fine is £160 and there is no option to pay the fine at a reduced rate.
Parents with parental responsibility, and adults residing with the child, including for example, stepparents who have day-to-day responsibility for the child, may be fined, and this applies to each child who is absent.
If a Penalty Notice is not paid within the time limits set out in the letter to the parent, the Local Authority may proceed the case to court.
Nationally, Headteachers are: not permitted to approve term-time holidays except in genuinely exceptional circumstances, and are to consider each application for a leave of absence individually before making our decision.
The law clearly expects Headteachers to enforce these penalties strictly.
Parents/carers do not have the right to take children out of school for a holiday during term time. Any requests are considered on an individual basis following guidelines issued by the DfE and LA.
Holiday absences will not be authorised if they are not considered to meet exceptional circumstances.
If a pupil goes on holiday without permission, the absence will be classed as unauthorised. Absence will also be unauthorised if a child does not return to school on the agreed date. Unauthorised absence could result in referral to the LA to begin legal proceedings.

Please click the link below to access the form and ensure both persons with parental responsibility sign it. It can not be processed without two signatures. Once fully completed please hand into the school office for Mrs Godfrey to process.