School Attendance marking

Background

School attendance legislation was changed in August 2024, all pupils who arrive after the register has closed will be marked using code U. This is extremely problematic as traffic and congestion is extremely high with all the pre planning traffic is an unavoidable circumstance.

Additional details

Schools across the UK have taken this new legislation on marking lateness as U ( unauthorised) to the extreme pupil that are a few minutes late due to traffic are marked unauthorised for the entire morning session this isnt fair on the families as the children are in school why should they penalised and threatened with fines and prosicution for everyday traffic this cant be avoided and circumstances arent taken into account.